As a tribute to XKCD’s ‘Map of Online Communities’, Flowtown decided to re-create their own, updated version of this map. The numbers are taken to reflect many new developments in the social networking communities, including Facebook surpassing Myspace as the preeminent online community.
Practising lawyers, I would suggest, are currently navigating their flotilla in a decisive and fashion between the Twitter peninsula (wisely avoiding the island of FourSquare, but occasionally making treks into the Facebook mainland); making occasional stop-offs at various archipegalos and isles of apps that spew from the iPhone volcano; observing the wild and IPR infested Wikimedia territories from a respectable distance; as they head for the respectable and sheltered bays of LinkedIn where they may even gather offerings from the nearby Google empire, cragged with media mountain ranges!
Academics, law schools and universities are perhaps less confident or clear in their navigation, often floundering in the sea of desperation as they attempt to build colonies in YouTube; establish contact with their students in the distant lands of Facebook and Twitter; maintain some out-posts in Flickr and Blogspot; and grow increasingly concerned about storms brewing in the sea of personal information.
Far safer, perhaps, is the parallel universe of virtual learning environments where the United Nations of Moodle and the Blackboard - WebCT Empire battle for VLE supremacy.
Guided somewhat by the 2010 Horizons Report and the Hype Cycle for Legal Education, I now present a somewhat cruder Atlas for Legal Education! Any additions or suggestions are most welcome!
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Posted by: Nike Shox Rivalry | 18 September 2010 at 02:37
Thanks for the props Michael. Will try to get more depth to the US map than just CALI, but appreciate the thought. ;-)
Posted by: John Mayer | 13 August 2010 at 18:18