Maps of the web

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This year, I would like to go exploring the web (I’ve probably already mentioned that a couple of times). An explorer needs maps, and so I’ve been thinking about the way the web is currently mapped. Most of the maps out there are either based on network connections between machines (which isn’t that interesting to me) or on semantic connections between topics (which is better, but still not that interesting). More on the semantic web another day, though. And I’ll start talking about mappa mundi once I’ve been to the library again and know what I’m talking about.

So far, the best map of the web I’ve found is this map of online communities on xkcd.