This year's Web 2.0 Summit, a conference for web bigwigs, has a pretty neat topic: Points of Control, The Battle for the Network Economy. What got my attention was the nifty presentation of various segments of the Internet as a battlefield map.
One could envision a smoke-filled backroom where Internet honchos (I'm looking at you, Ben Huh) play the Net like a game of Risk: http://map.web2summit.com/ - via John Battele's Searchblog