Via Plasticbag I found the link to "Blog-poly" which metaphorms the blogosphere into a monopoly board. This was created by a Norwegian who is a creative thinker and has a site called Little Oslo.
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.
If we created a monopoly board for nonprofit blogland, I wonder what it would look like?
Blogpoly is not the only Monopoly inspired by blogging. In the Cambodian Blogosphere, expat Mr. Guy (a wonderful photographer and writer), got some help from others in fleshing out his idea of a Khmer version of monopoly.
Monopoly has special meaning to me because I grew up in Atlantic City and lived down the street from Marvin Gardens (one of the yellow properties.) Marvin Gardens is between the red arrows. My house is where the red balloon is.
Hello,
I have done the fastfood chains version of Monopoly, I called it Foodpoly ( Foodopoly or Junkopoly, whatever you like.)
I hope you would also enjoy it as much as the Blogpoly I made earlier. This time, there is 7 versions of it, it covers different cities from London, Los Angeles , Bangkok, Sydney, Hong Kong, Taipei and Oslo.
link: http://littleoslo.com/eng/foodpoly.htm
Posted by: littleoslo | June 13, 2005 at 11:23 AM