News Dots : interactive map of how every story in the news is related (built using an open-source ActionScript library called Flare).

All Google Maps Video : Getting Started

Best RSS feeds for information graphics

Visualizing Information for Advocacy: An Introduction to Information Design

http://mind-mapping.alltop.com/

Snow Leopard’s Beautiful Icons

Artists that use maps as their muse (including Matthew Cusick )

We should forget about joining our hemispheres together and let them do what they do best.

Love the Art; Hate the Artist?

Complimenting Strangers

"The ability to connect, recombine, and recreate are hallmarks of knowledge today. Small pieces, which stand on their own, can be recreated in different media, contexts, and used to create more personalized, complex structures." - Via
"We need maps to understand each other in this constant exploration." - Joao Machado
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joupert Via
"This desire to carry the viewer into a different realm of experience is a voyage that I hold sacred, and am in pursuit of as a painter." - Sharon Okun
"The best way to teach somebody something, is to have them think they're learning something else." - Randy Pausch