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Growth and distribution of social networks
One of the hopes for Web 2.0 in the open education space is that educational networking sites will emerge, but so far there’s no clear model emerging for how this might happen. The growth of social networking illustrates the complexities. c|net is reporting some of the recent data around the growth of social networks, and while there seems to be rapid growth all around, there is also a global patchwork of preferred sites, shown in this Valleywag illustration. There’s no clear consensus at this point if educational networking will emerge from these existing communities, through the creation of new parallel ones, or from somewhere else entirely. (via elearnspace)
