Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest
Posted May 9th, 2007 by Peter D. Naegele, Oberlin College Department of Psychology
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This map, drawn by Randall Munroe (creator of the web comic XKCD), represents online communities (MySpace, Friendster, and so on) as islands and continents. Land size is based roughly on the number of users of each service.
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Peter D. Naegele. "Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest." Academic Commons Issue Name (Spring 2008): 15 October 2008. <http://www.academiccommons.org/>.Bookmark/Search this post with:
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Re: Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest
On May 20th, 2007 Ryan Bretag (not verified) said:
I had a hard time finding that too but it is near the Viral Straights directly above the Of on Sea of Memes
Re: Map of Online Communities and Related Points of Interest
On May 9th, 2007 Jon Shannon, South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Mathematics said:
I really got a kick out of this when it came up the other day.
Perhaps my eyes aren't keen enough, but I didn't see del.icio.us anywere... perhaps it is the un-named island next to the banner disclosing that it isn't a complete survey.
More properly, it is probably assimilated into the Icy North with the rest of Yahoo. ;/
