What a circle jerk this wil be at webby's

May 13, 2005 5:43 PM

Blogpoly What? No Mefi! Jerks.
posted by MiltonRandKalman (24 comments total)

almost forgot. [via bb, duh]
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 5:45 PM on May 13, 2005

Shouldn't it be Blogopoly? Copyright? Blogpoly don't sound right.
posted by billysumday at 5:50 PM on May 13, 2005

So two days ago, while accurate, should be one tag. Like, so.two.days.ago or SoTwoDaysAgo.
posted by graventy at 5:52 PM on May 13, 2005

We're pure Baltic Avenue though, if that.
posted by mathowie at 5:54 PM on May 13, 2005

why don't you point out the typo in my title while you're at it? tough crowd. Anyone wanna comment on the actual game?

on preview—Mathowie ha!
Metafilter: Slum Lords of the Internet
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 5:57 PM on May 13, 2005

We're pure Baltic Avenue though, if that.

Metatalk is "Go To Jail," though, I figure.
posted by jonmc at 6:04 PM on May 13, 2005

i emailed him--it's a cute site too.
posted by amberglow at 6:06 PM on May 13, 2005

Shouldn't it be Blogopoly?
Yes. -opoly is the proper suffix, and official way to make your board game.

Copyright?
Sorta

I actually had Marinopoly as a kid, themed on Marin county (that nifty area on the other side of the Golden Gate Bridge). I'm sure every major city or county had a [CITY]opoly-themed game, usually sold as a fundraiser with local businesses sponsoring properties and local flavored humor on the cards.

The cards usually mentioned getting a rebate from MMWD for bricking your toilet during the drought or being fined for not getting a permit to install your redwood jacuzzi. If I remember correctly the game pieces were a BMW {basic marin wheels}, a latte and a coke spoon.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 6:45 PM on May 13, 2005

At least boing boing is the crappiest one.
posted by absalom at 6:48 PM on May 13, 2005

The game is cute. A nice link. I don't like the cut of Milton's jib though. Heat up the tar. Find a chicken. Maybe two.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 8:04 PM on May 13, 2005

I love chicken.

I was just being snarky, if I didn't think it was awesome I wouldn't risk a front page post. I thought it was very clever and tad blogosphere masturbatory. My only neg was it seems to feature mostly tools of blogs than big blogs like say kuro5hin, /., gizmodo, linksfilter, and the like. BB get 1.6M+ visitors and is a blog, fine it's a valid addition.

Blog only board perhaps for someone else to make? Or maybe a Memeopoly would be a worthy endeavor referencing Hamster Dance, AYBABTU, and {shudder} Goatse.cx
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 8:46 PM on May 13, 2005

Memeopoly is a great idea ("I kiss you" cards!)
posted by amberglow at 9:12 PM on May 13, 2005

Memeopoly is a great idea

Dibs on being the community chest.
posted by DeepFriedTwinkies at 11:09 PM on May 13, 2005

Next we need...



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posted by taz at 12:42 AM on May 14, 2005

And this game means what exactly?
posted by sjvilla79 at 12:59 AM on May 14, 2005

Not sure which you mean... Mine is supposed to be the answer side of a "Trivial Pursuit, Blogger edition" game card, and the posted site is about translating a Monopoly game board into an internet/blog-oriented game in terms of nomenclature and symbology. It's all imaginary.

I wonder what the game pieces for Blogopoly (no - don't like "Blogpoly, either!) should be? A tiny mousepad? The Mozilla monster head? The Google "g" could be one, maybe...
posted by taz at 1:39 AM on May 14, 2005

Game pieces? Coll! I got first dibs on the disembodied head.
posted by ZachsMind at 2:08 AM on May 14, 2005

Sorry, taz, I was talking about Blogpoly Blogopoly. I mean I'm struggling to find the point of it. And I'm aware of its narrative. Just seems like a good waste of time, though.
posted by sjvilla79 at 2:10 AM on May 14, 2005

Ah! It definitely is! But I'm always a sucker for completely absurd timesinks (hence my mefi membership!).
posted by taz at 3:03 AM on May 14, 2005

No worries, taz. Whatever floats your boat.
posted by sjvilla79 at 3:17 AM on May 14, 2005

taz: nice use of "dooced". Friggin awesome!
posted by papercake at 1:03 PM on May 14, 2005

I've got a copy of the dot-com version of Monoply . Pretty funny, what with the number of companies now deceased.

I suspect any version of Blogflopoly will have a shorter half-life.

Game pieces? Coll! I got first dibs on the disembodied head.

Is there a gaping goat.se piece?
posted by Ayn Marx at 1:40 PM on May 14, 2005

I can fully imagine making a monopoly board of blog properties, but this doesn't seem to be it. How is Skype a blogging tool?
posted by jacquilynne at 2:35 PM on May 14, 2005

>How is Skype a blogging tool?

It's used by high-hit bloggers, and most of them are tools.
posted by gsb at 2:54 PM on May 14, 2005