Monday, May 21, 2007

I think I am done

I believe I have completed all of my work. I must admit this was a good experience overall. My procrastination caused me to get way behind and to stress about this. But honestly as I began working on this, I seriously began to enjoy. For me it is fun to learn because it is relevant to marketing and I can see hands on how things actually work. Moreover, the fact that I was able to gain some insight not only on posting on blogs and such by how people can benefit from their own blogs (for instance through adsense or amazon associates) made in that much more important to me.

Thank you Professor Brown for a good semester. Good luck with Tim Wooley's Racing and your future endeavours!

Grammatical Change to Flea Market

Oooops. Forgot about this...Under the wiki page flea market I made a grammatical change to the line....The car boot sale is similar to a flea market, however is more popular in the United Kingdom. Prior to my change it said but is more popular. But certainly shouldn't be used in this situation. It sounds a littly awkward and isn't grammatically correct. Very small change, I know, but every little counts.

Boothwyn, PA Wikipedia Reflection

I guess I am a dork my I did 5 wikipedia edits. My additions to the Boothywn, PA wikipedia page were not the most significant, however, certainly provide information about the character of the town, the history of the town, and what to do in the town. I discussed Booths Corner Farmers Market in which I have a store in and Brigg's Auction. Both of these businesses are extremely important to the town and its fair to say both are meeting places for the town. While similar wikipedia pages on towns don't have specifics on businesses, something about Boothywn, PA I felt it made sense these businesses were mentioned as they do play such an important role in the town.

Haddonfield Memorial High School

I had some fun posting under my high school's wikipedia page. I of course had to add a line on an award me and my fellow teammates one in cross country. I also added an award the yearbook team won in 1990. While I thought this was kind of a funny addition the award was special to some and was relevant to the page. Lastly, adding a line about our All Sports Award success was probably my best contribution to this page. This is something the high school and the community is extremely proud of and certainly should be on here. Other than my additions I have found minimal changes through my time working on this wikipedia page.

Online Poker Wikipedia Reflection

The online poker wikipedia page seems to be always changing, especially as this business is drastically changing because of laws and such. I feel as a member of the wiki world I contributed the most under this page. My contribution under the differences between conventional poker page most certainly crystalizes the specific differences. Prior to this it was rather general. Someone looking to actually understand the difference between games will now truly know the differences and as a result I feel wikipedia is a valuable source. In addition to my serious posts I experimented on this page to see how long it takes for a wiki to be changed. I posted how I am an online player that should be avoided. Within hours this was taken down. This certainly shows to me that people care about what is being posted and also such a term as online poker is constantly being searched.

Reflection on Flea Market Page on Wikipedia

As a flea market vendor I felt it was neccessary to ad to the wikipedia community under flea market. Similar to my other wikis, their has been a minimal evolution to the flea market page. However, thats not to say people are not paying attention. When I put on some information about one of the biggest flea markets in the nation, Stormville Airport Flea market one wiki user immediately took it off. I think I understand why. That is wiki users don't want to see such pages being used for people to just try to gain exposure if it isn't neccessarily relevant. However, I place little value on getting Stormville Airport Flea Market any more exposure and feel this is important to this page. I also added what one should look for at flea markets as far as merchandise and said a little something about counterfiets and bootlegs as it is important customers go into such a shopping experience educated.

Evolution of Haddonfield, NJ

The Haddonfield, NJ wikipedia pages has changed only slightly since I have began working on it. I have added information on the history of Haddonfield, special events in Haddonfield, and also on popular culture. Of my additions only the one on popular culture has been changed and only in the slightest. Town pages generally don't change much in the short run as the basic information remains the same. The pages may grow but generally such subjects don't have wiki users constantly updating and adding.