Blogpoly: From Monopoly to Blogpoly

“It is just a game. It is fun to use the board to lay out the Blogosphere Ecosystem. It helps me to think and learn about blogging culture by transforming the original game into this version. I had to think about which company and enterprise to choose and set up first on the board. The space is limited, so I picked well known names in blogging industry. Besides the private properties, there are two public utilities--the water works and the electric company. Then I thought of ‘Wikipedia’ and ‘Creative Commons’, and then a few more, making ‘criminal’ into ‘spammer’, ‘free parking’ into ‘free hosting’. ‘Chance’ and ‘community chest’ become ‘comment’ and ‘trackback’. Fun -- yes? There is not much difference for me transforming the game than writing a poem, using similes, metaphors and symbols.” [littleoslo, via Boing Boing]

This is a nice, visual representation of bloggy and social sites/services. It could serve as an interesting conversation piece in training classes, especially tech CE events.

Just for the record, violet/riga did finally respond to my question about the WorldCat link for The Da Vinci Code. Apparently Liz Lawley’s follow-up question on violet/riga’s page got more attention, so thanks, Liz!

Comments on the previous post noted the existing method for linking to books via ISBN (thanks, Richard!), and that’s a valid point. The WorldCat link is included on that Book Sources page, along with other ways to find the title in libraries, so it still serves as a good example of what I was saying in my presentation. violet/riga eventually found that, too, which makes more sense than her original notation.

Case closed.