Thursday, October 14, 2010
Planet Blue on the Map of the Internet
So the world's second-greatest webcomic, XKCD, has updated its legendary "Map of the Internet" for the many changes this land has undertaken since 2006. At the moment I'm quite proud of the number of hits this blog has gotten (nearly 10000 since June) but there are times I wonder if enough people know where to find the Planet of Me. So I've decided to go use the XKCD map and pinpoint the exact location where you can find Planet Blue (icon not to scale):
As you can see, Planet Blue is right in the middle of the blog archipelago which is to the east of the Sea of Opinions. We don't belong to any major landmass however, hovering someplace inbetween the Politic island, the Creative Writing land, and the Empire of Fandom Blogs. Unfortunately this puts us well outside the core Blogosphere, so I doubt we'll ever be featured on CNN. However, we now are well outside of the frightening dark world that is the "Sea of Zero Comments", and hopefully one day will conquer the entirity of this portion of the Internet... and then, all of human discourse itself! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Sluggy Freelance is another great webcomic. If you haven't read it I would recommend it. Don't be intimidated by the fact that it has been UPDATING EVERY DAY FOR THE PAST THIRTEEN YEARS, just take it a little at a time. The Oceans Unmoving story arc is particularly awesome.
ReplyDeleteGood location, that map is really cool too. I think we're safe for a bit, at least until the next update :P
ReplyDeleteanyone else notice that the intertet and cell phones are smaller than "spoken language"? o.o
ReplyDeleteI would think with all the texting and online chatting sites (grouping IRC's and stuff like FB and Myspace together) would be much larger than the mass of old people that actually use that ugly thing beneath your nose that makes wierd noises to communicate with your parents with...or maybe it's just me..
One day Blue will rule the internet.(With an iron fist I hope)
ReplyDeleteSpoken language, being roughly 100 thousand years old than the Internet, would naturally be much larger. Look at the course of your day: how much interaction do you actually do electronically? Think of all the books you've read, the signs you see, the people you talk to, the lectures you sit in, and the conversations you overhear. Spoken language beats the Internet by lightyears.
ReplyDeleteI love these maps. They are actually quite a good way of reflecting the changes in the internet over time. I have, sitting on my desk, a printout of one they did in 2007. Facebook is on the corner of this little penninsular under the shadow of MySpace. WoW is the dominant MMO, covering almost all of the MMO island, and the blogipelago is nowhere near as vast or diverse as it is now.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what future maps will look like...
If xckd is the second greatest webcomic, then what is the greatest?
ReplyDelete@BlueHighwind: well, think about it, take teens for example, I know many of my friends would sooner text/e-mail a friend/parent/teacher to talk/ask for help on something than actually talk to them in person. Yes spoken language has been around for a while now, but think about it, eventually electronics will become dominent and this event isn't very far off. I'd say by 2030 at least, e-mails, texting and other similar things will become dominent by far.
ReplyDelete@R8.50: xckd actually is #1, but they are so nice that they pretend someone is better than them :P
E-Mail and social networking messages will NEVER be more popular than the spoken word, unless somehow humans lose the ability to speak.
ReplyDeleteOh, and the best webcomic is 2P Start!