Reaction to the iColor Studio Wikipedia Article

The only edit to the iColor Studio, LLC article was that it was declared to be a "stub". I think that once my mom and I add more content to the article, it will probably lose the classification of a "stub".

Reaction to the Berlin Township, New Jersey Wikipedia Article

The Berlin Township, New Jersey article was overall a pretty inactive article on wikipedia. The only edit made to my entries was linking New Jersey Route 73 to its article page. Berlin Township was an important article to edit because it is the neighboring town to my hometown and it is important to differentiate it from Berlin, New Jersey.

12th Wikipedia Edit

I've made my final wikipedia edit to the article iColor Studio, LLC. I added the phrase, "because it offers high quality products and services at relatively inexpensive prices." I will probably work with my mom and continue to edit this article after this class has ended. Check it out!

11th Wikipedia Edit

I have made my final edit to the Berlin Township, New Jersey article. Under the transportation section of the article, I added the sentence, "New Jersey Route 73 also passes through Berlin Township." It is important to know that this route runs through the town because it is a heavily traveled road, especially during the summer because it takes many people to the entrance of the Atlantic City Expressway- which takes you to the South Jersey shore points. Check it out!

Class Material Post 4

In class today we learned about the basics of HTML. I think this is very important for everyone to learn and have a general understanding of. I thought it was a good demonstration to have one of my classmates create a website using HTML during class today to show how easy it is to create a basic website.

10th Wikipedia Edit

I have made my 2nd edit to the iColor Studio, LLC article that I created. I added the sentence, "iColor Studio designs are very corporate, sleek looking, user-friendly web designs as well as edgy, creative print design." I thought this sentence was important to add so that it is known that this company is very creative and professional. Check it out!

Class Material Post 3: Stiuqxela

In the beginning of class today, we talked about the "Stiuqxela" experiment. The top 3 entries were done by Chris Einkauf. He created an article about stiuqxela and linked other students to his article on e-zine. The students that are linked to his article are ranked higher when doing a keyword search on google for stiuqxela. Therefore, if Chris linked my blog as "stiuqxela" to his article, my blog would most likely be ranked higher in a google search.

9th Wikipedia Edit

I've made my second wikipedia edit to the Berlin Township, New Jersey article. I condensed the second paragraph of the education section into one sentence because the previous version seemed a bit redundant to me. The new version says, "Students from Berlin Township and Clementon attend Overbrook High School in Pine Hill for grades 9-12 as a part of a sending/receiving relationship with Pine Hill schools." Check it out!

Classmate Comment Post 2

After browsing through some of my classmates' blogs, I came across Kerri Angell's blog post on an article from Slashdot called, "Should Chimps Have Human Rights?". I checked out the article through the link she had in her post and I think its absurd for them to even consider chimpanzees having the same rights as humans and that they could be charged in the court of law. Primatologists think that chimps should be treated like humans because of the many similarities between the two groups. I just thought that this article was really weird and amusing at the same time... and I'm glad that others feel the same way that I do about it.

8th Wikipedia Edit

I've created the article iColor Studio, LLC. When speaking to my mom earlier in the semester about the wikipedia project about ideas for articles, she asked if I could create an article about her company. I just put in a brief history about the company and what the company does. It was much easier to create an article than I had thought it would be. Check it out!

Reaction to the Eastern High School Wikipedia Article

I also looked at the history to the Eastern High School article on wikipedia that I also edited earlier on in the semester. One person added another famous alumni to the page--Adam Taliaferro. Adam was a senior football player at my high school when I was a freshmen. The following year he was awarded an athletic scholarship to play football for Penn State. During one of the first games of the season versus Ohio State, Adam went in for a tackle and was nearly paralyzed. Today, he is functioning at 90% of what he could previous to the injury. He also wrote a book called "Miracle in the Making" which is now a required reading assignment for freshmen at Eastern High School. There was another edit that just cited some numbers I had added to the article. I'm really glad someone took the time to acknowledge Adam Taliaferro in the Eastern High School article.

Reaction to the Berlin, New Jersey Wikipedia Article

I reviewed the history page of the Berlin, New Jersey article that I have made three edits to on wikipedia earlier this semester. The only change that had been made since I made edits was that someone cited something I added to the article from the US Census Bureau. Other than that, the article has not been changed and my edits have remained in the article.

7th Wikipedia Edit

I have made my first wikipedia edit to the article, Berlin Township, New Jersey. Many people do not realize that there is a difference between Berlin and Berlin Township, New Jersey.. they are in fact, two different towns. Berlin sends its students to Eastern High School while Berlin Township sends its students to Overbrook High School in Pinehill, New Jersey. I made a change within the sentence, "Schools in the district are John F. Kennedy Elementary School for Preschool through 4th grade and Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School for grades 5-8." The first version read "PreK-4" so I changed it to "Preschool through 4th grade" because I thought it sounded better. Feel free to check it out!

Required Blog List Post 4

I also came across the article, "15 Year-Old Scams YouTube", on Slashdot and thought it also peaked my interest. The article states that "a fifteen year old from Perth, Australia, posed as an employee of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, demanding that YouTube remove hundreds of video clips of 'The Chasers War on Everything.' The amusing part is that The Chaser is a comedy company well known to perpetrate exactly this sort of prank." While this article was relatively funny, I also found it to be relevant to the Viacom vs. Google case that we spoke about in class. Viacom was demanding Google/YouTube to take down certain video clips from YouTube's site. It seems that YouTube has been dealing with not only Viacom, but other companies, with this issue.

Required Blog List Post 3

After reading through some of the blog posts on the required blog list, I came across the article, "Should Schools Block Sites Like Wikipedia?" on Slashdot. The post states that a school board blocked Wikipedia from the entire school, including teachers and faculty because the information on the site is created and edited by users; therefore, it is not a reliable or credible source. I thought this was particularly interesting because we are editing wikipedia articles in this course. I have used wikipedia as a research tool for initial research, but have not relied completely on the information provided on the site itself. I think that wikipedia is a good source to use as a starting point when researching and I do not think that the school system, or any school system, should block the site from its students.

6th Wikipedia Edit

I've made my 3rd wikipedia edit to my 2nd article, Eastern High School. I added the sentence, "There are presently approximately 2,225 students enrolled at the two high schools" to the article. I thought it was important for the article to state the number of students who are enrolled at Eastern High School.

STIUQXELA

The class is conducting an experiment on the keyword, "stiuqxela", to see whether or not it will come up as a result after doing a keyword search on google.

5th Wikipedia Edit

I made my 2nd Wikipedia to my 2nd article, Eastern High School. I added the sentence, "Eastern Senior and Eastern Intermediate are located on the same site, however, operate independently." The entry previously stated that there are two high schools-- one for grades 9 and 10 and the other for grades 11 and 12-- but it did not mention that the two schools were located on the same site. I thought this was important to note in the article. Check out my changes!

4th Wikipedia Edit

I've made my first edit to the article Eastern High School (New Jersey). I attended Eastern Regional for all 4 years of high school and realized that the article did not inclue how many students are enrolled at the high school. Therefore, I added the following: "There are over 1,000 students enrolled in grades 11 and 12 at Eastern Senior High School. Eastern Intermediate High School has approximately 1,150 students enrolled in grades 9 and 10." I think it is important for people to know how many children attend this school.

Required Blog List Post 2

The second required blog list article I found was also from Slashdot. The article is titled "Dogs Trained to Sniff Out Piracy". According to the article, two dogs from Northern Ireland have been trained to sniff out chemicals that are manufactured in optical discs. The dogs are doing a good job of sniffing out discs that are not claimed in customs and "are doing so much faster than human inspection of the cargo can do." I thought this was particularly interesting because I never thought that dogs could be trained to do this type of thing. Although there are some risks with this, it may be good in helping to detect pirated material faster.