Cartofictions: Maps, the Imaginary and GeoSocial Engineering

via Create Digital Motion is Julian Oliver's keynote from Inclusiva-net (Madrid 2008), Cartofictions: Maps, the Imaginary and GeoSocial Engineering,

"In this lecture Julian shows a darker side of map-making, covering various reality-distorting effects innate to the graphic language of cartography and how they can be easily exploited for gain..." This lecture is a bit slow and limited by a Eurocentric bias but does cover early world maps and Google Earth, so it might work while multi-tasking. Oblique background info is at Julian Oliver : The Art of Gardening.