If you work for a company with more than one member of staff, you'll be familiar with corporate pronouncements. Sometimes these are easy to digest, they're masterpieces of language; you know exactly what they're saying and more importantly what impact the pronouncement has on you and on your job. But sometime you read them and realise though you've read words and sentences you really have no idea what is supposed to be imparted by the words you've just read. With this in mind, I offer up the Corporate Communications Index. A simple, easy to read and digest table, which allows you to easily determine whether your job is safe or whether now would be a really really good time to polish your resume a little bit.

I can't take the credit for this work though; this piece of ever so slightly twisted genius is down to Jenny Allen who doesn't blog much, if at all. Consider me merely the messenger here, if you will.

Regular visitors to the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Internet that is my blog may be aware that I use WordPress as a blogging platform. Those visitors who come here via a browser on a phone may even be aware that WordPress automagically presents a mobile friendly version of the site. This magic happens because of the user-agent string your browser sends to the web server hosting my blog; this string tells the web server what sort of browser (and more importantly what sort of device) is trying to view my blog. If WordPress sees a user-agent string like this ...

Here's a simple, cut-out-and-keep recipe for making a very geeked out update on a cartographical classic. First, take a classic and iconic map which appeals to both the map geek in you as well as the Tube geek in you. Harry Beck's 1931 reworking of the map of the London Underground system will do nicely.

Next, take a classic, 1980's movie which appeals to both the scifi fan and the computer nerd in you and classifies as a guilty pleasure as an added bonus. Disney's 1981 Tron fits the bill here.

Add the ingredients, mix well and serve. The end results might just look like Kevin Flynn's version of the London Underground network on The Grid.

To paraphrase Kevin Flynn (the Tron character not the artist) ... "Who's that guy?", "That's Tron. He fights for the Tube Users".

Photo Credits: thehutch on Flickr and Kevin Flynn on Deviant Art.

In March 2010, Chris Osborne and myself transplanted the post-Where 2.0 WhereCamp from Silicon Valley and brought it to London. Judging by the feedback and comments we got during and after the event, it was a geotastic success and showed that Europe had an appetite for a 2 day, free, unconference on all matters geo. After a brief northbound sojourn as WhereCamp UK in November 2010, we're happy to announce that WhereCamp EU is back for 2011 and with a distinctly European flavour.

Whilst the venue is yet to be confirmed, WhereCamp EU will be taking place on the 27th and 28th of May in Berlin.

We'll keep you posted with more details on the WhereCamp EU blog , on Lanyrd and on our Twitter feed.

"Ich Bin Geograph" (as Google translate tells me).

As a precursor to last week's mashup* Digital Trends event, I chatted to Paul Squires of Imperica about my location trends in more detail than the mashup* format would have allowed for. The write-up from that interview is now up on Imperica's web site and, thanks to them adopting a Creative Commons  license, I'm able to reproduce it here.

After yesterday's admittedly bleak look at how not to use a map, I thought it worthwhile to look at a far more upbeat use of a map. This particular gem has been doing the rounds for a long long time, but I've no idea where it originated from (if you know, then please let me know in the comments).

As a map it's a fairly simple affair, inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's and Tim Rice's 1978 musical Evita, showing which countries should and which countries shouldn't cry for you.

So now you know.