Final Blog posting: "Rockville Centre" wikipedia article

For my wikipedia article “Rockville Centre” my major contributions consisted of discussing the school district within my hometown. I created this section titled “Rockville Centre School District” within my first edit which has remained unchanged by the wikipedia community. I had just provided basic information which comprised of a list of the names of the public schools from the elementary level to the high school. My second edit to this article also helped develop the section “Rockville Centre School District” by providing a link to the school districts homepage. This addition has also remained unchanged. As far as my third edit, I had made a small grammatical correction within the article by correcting the spelling of Rockville Centre. Many people spell centre wrong by placing the “r” after the “e”.
For the most part this article is pretty active within the wikipedia community. It is fairly well developed with a rich history overview, but a lot of important information can continue to be developed. There hasn’t been may major changed to the article since February but there have been many small edits and additions that should help the article grow.

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Final Blog posting: "Seawane Country Club" Wikipedia Article

For the Wikipedia article “Seawane Country Club”, I was the creator of this page. This article had generated the most feedback from the community out of all four of my chosen articles. After I made my first post of providing some basic information about the club and giving contact information about the club, I found that the article was deleted by the community. The reason that was provided for this was because they stated that the article was not objective and had a slanted bias. I wasn’t exactly sure why the wikipedia community had felt this way because the information was very straight forward and neutral in my mind. So for my second article I re-posted the same information by listing what the club offered, where it was located and some contact information. To my surprise the article remained unbothered and I have not had a problem with the article since. For my third edit to this article I had provided a link to the County clubs home website in order to provide the community a resource for more information.
As far as the development of the article, I was the only one to contribute to the article since this topic only applies to people who know of the place. I am not surprised by this because it is a private club and a lot of the members are very old. So I would not imagine a lot of the members would be active wikipedia community members. It will be interesting to see if the article will remain stagnant in the future since I will no longer be updating the article.
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Final Blog Posting: New York Mets wikipedia Article

Similar to my other article “New York Yankees” the “New York mets” had a well developed and mature article. The information covering the team was very extensive reaching from its origins in 1957 to the present day.
For my first edit to the article, I added a few sentences on how the Mets acquired Toms Seaver, who is one of the best pitchers in the history of the game. I added “Even though the Mets remained in last place, Tom Seaver was a sign of good fortune to come. He was originally signed by the Atlanta Braves in February 1966 out of the University of Southern California, but his contract was voided by Commissioner William D. Eckert on the basis that the USC season had already started when Seaver signed. In order to resolve this issue, the Mets, Indians, and Phillies were all placed in a hat since they were the only teams willing to match the Braves offer, and the Mets were fortunate enough to win the drawing”. Since I posted this edit, it has remained in the article unchanged. I had expected this since it is an important part of their history and is accurate.
For my second edit in the section titled “1996-2004: Piazza, Bobby V, and the Subway Series" I added another statistic in MLB history that during the 2002 season Al Leiter became the only pitcher to defeat all thirty teams in the majors. For the most part this edit had stayed but the wikipedia community removed my second portion of the sentence saying that Al Leiter was at the end of his career.
For my third and final edit, I commented on the Mets most recent season, which is the most evolving section of this article to date. I stated that the Mets should be battling the Atlanta Braves all season for the division lead since they are both strong teams and off to great starts. However this edit was completely removed. I am not sure why this was removed because I felt it was an objective statement.
In general the article is mainly developing in the sections that apply to current times. This mainly deals with the section discussing the current season and the plans for the new stadium.

Final Blog Posting: New York Yankees Wikipedia Article

When I first began working on my first wikipedia article “New York Yankees”, the article was already well developed containing a lot of information. So for my edits, I decided to add relevant facts to the history of the team that weren’t already included. The first edit that I made listed a couple of accomplishments of Babe Ruth in the section titled “The Ruth and Gehrig era and the Stadium (1923-1935)”. The information that I posted actually remained but was altered a little. The facts of Babe Ruth that I added were that he accumulated 2,213 RBIs over his career which ranks second in Major League History, and totaled 1,971 as a Yankee which is second best in the Yankees team history". These facts remained in the wikipedia article but the grammars of the sentences were altered slightly by adding parenthesis.
For my second Edit I also added another statistic from Yankee history that remained. My edit stated that Roger Clemens achieved his 300th win and 4000th strikeout in the same game which was placed in the articles section titled “The 21st century (2001-Present)”. This edit had remained unchanged since I wrote it in and is still there.
For my third and final edit I contributed to the latest section called “The 21st century (2001-Present)” by stating that the Yankees had resigned Roger Clemens to a tremendous deal. My edit had been altered by the community since I made the edit right after the transaction occurred in real life and didn’t have all of the details at the time. As more information was revealed about the topic, someone added more insight by stating that the signing was technically a minor league contract and indicated the worth of the contract. This has been the most recent information added to the article since this only occurred a couple of weeks ago.
As far as the development of the entire article, most of the new additions come at the end of the article that deals with the current Yankees 2007 season. Any revisions before the current season’s section are just grammatical corrections since this area is already very mature. I would consider this article pretty active since a lot of people are interested in the Yankees.
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Comment #2 on teamate Danielle's Blog

In response to Danielles post about learning HTML, I agree that the material is a little boring. However, how useful is it today to actually know how to use HTML? There are many programs available today such as NVU, Microsoft Homepage, and Deamweaver that will create great looking hompages for you in a much easier fashion. By using these programs, you don't have to worry about codes and minute details that can literally drive you crazy when creating a website. this post refers to Danielle post titled "Class material:HTML", which was created on Friday May 11, and can be accessed here

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From Slashdot, there was a very perverted blog posting that indicated that a 54 year old German man was getting involded with porn through the use of Avatars. This is very disturbing sincenew technologies are continually being used for malicious intent. Avatars now provide sick individuals such as this man a means to covering up his true identity in order to trick younger women and perform these heinous acts. The article was titled "Germans Pursuing Kiddie Porn In Second Life" and can be found here.

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Edit #3 to "New York Yankees" article

For my third and final post to the wikipedia article "New York Yankees", I updated the most current news about the team that Roger Clemens had signed a new contract with the team on sunday and is expected to play in early June. This is tremendous news for Yankee fans since he is still very dominant. For my edit, I wrote "The Yankees signed Clemens to a tremendous deal that equates $28 million on a prorated basis from the first day he is added to the Yankees' Major League roster. Many question how much he will be able to help the Yankees win a World series since he is currently 44 years old, but Roger Clemens made it clear that winning a championship is the only reason he is coming back." This edit was placed at the end of the section labeled "The 21st century (2001-Present)".

Date of Entry-5/08/07

Hyperlink- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_york_yankees

Post #4 on Class material

For my fourth and final post on class maerial, I would like to comment on the article we read in class "how digg.com is democratizing the news". I think the democratization of the news is a great, and unique idea that does have a lot of potential. I think it helps solve the current news problem today that it is very uniform, and owned by a few large firms. This gives the news a chance to be published by people and should shed new light on different subjects. Also using RSS feeds to filter news that interests any one person can also be very convienent. However I do agree with some of the critics that bashed this idea in the article. It will be interesting to see if digg does begin to shape into a tabloid type publication. Those types of stories are entertaining and may dominate the popular front page if they get the most hits.

Edit #3 to "New York Mets" wikipedia article

For my third and final edit to the wikipedia article "New York Mets", I added a breif update on how the mets are performing in the current 2007 series. In the section titled "2005-present: Minaya takes the reins", I added the line "From the looks of the first month of the season, the Mets and Braves should batteling all season for the top spot in the National league East Division".

Permalink- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mets

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From Diva Marketing, toby worote an interesting article called "Crisis Management in the Year 2007 and beyond". This article addresses the issue of rapidly notifying people during an emergency in the most effective and efficient mannor. This article was spurred by the tragedy that occued at Virginia Tech, and one possible solution that she had mentioned was devising a text messaging system that could contact students on campus. I have heard of this type of system before and think it is a great idea. Text messaging is easy, fast, and nearly everyone has cell phones. I know companies are also starting to implement this communication median in case of an emergency. My dad who works for Avaya, had told me his company implemented a text messaging notification system in case of emergency as well since they all have corporate cellphones.

Permalink- http://bloombergmarketing.blogs.com/bloomberg_marketing/2007/04/our_hearts_go_o.html

Edit #3 to "Rockville Centre" wikipedia article

For my third and final edit to the wikipedia article "Rockville Centre", I made a small gramatical correction in the section labeled "Miscellaneous Facts". A previous contributor had spelled Rockville Centre wrong by having the "e" before the "r" in centre.

Date of Entry- 5/5/07

Hyperlink- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockville_Centre

Edit #3 to "Seawane Country Club" wikipedia article

For my third and Final edit to the seawane Coutnry club article I added a link to the Clubs Homepage. This should serve as a good source of information if anyone needs additional information, or would like to see photos of the club. I was surprised to see that the Seawane article was not deleted like it was after my first edit. The information I posted was very basic, so hopefully it is not percieved as biased by the wikipedia community.

Date of Entry- 4/24/07

HyperlinkL: The Sewane Club

Post #3 on Class material

I thought the presentation given by Lou from host my site was very informative. It is very interesting to hear stories about former Alumni starting their own company and ending very successfully. I think Lou was lucky that he really didn't face as much adversity as many other start ups usually encounter. It did help that he was working for Dupont full time to help fund his side company. I always think of starting my own company, but do not have the necessary capital and funds that seemed to help propel Lou and Hostmysite.com. It will be interesting to see if Lou and his partner can further enhance the success of his company as i will definitely keep my eye on their future. I thought it was itneresting that he said most of his customers do come from over seas as I would have assumed their business would mainly be regional.

Edit #2 to "Rockville Centre" wikipedia article

For my second post on my home town Roockville Centre, I added a link to the home website of the public schools in the town. By providing this link, people could find out more information about the public school system. This could provide very useful for people who either have kids in the school district, or people that are interested in moving to rockville centre and want to find out more information.

Date of entry- 4/7/2007

Hyperlink- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockville_Centre%2C_New_York

Edit #2 to "Seawane Country Club" wikipedia article

As indicated earlier on my blog, I did recieve some turbulance on one of my wikipedia articles. Briefly after creating an article labeled "Sewane Country Club" which describes a local country club near my home, the wikipedia community had deleted the entry stating that it was a biased article and did not belong. In my opinion it was not biased becuase I only put very standard information about the club such as its features and contact information. For my second post to this article, I am going to repost the information to see if the community will react in the same mannor. This time for sure I know the article entry is not biased becusae I just listed the address, contact information, and the fact that there is a golf course and teniss courts ect. This information can be useful if someone is trying to contact the club and is searching for it on the itnernet.

Date of entry- 4/3/07
Hyperlink- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seawane_Country_Club

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Edit #2 to "New York Mets" wikipedia article

For my second edit to the New York Mets article, I added a statistic that Al Leiter become the first major league pitcher to defeat all 30 teams in the major leagues. This was accomplished in the Mets 2002 season. I added this statistic becuase it was one of the few bright spots for the mets during that season and shows how talented AL leiter is as a pitcher eventhough this was at the end of his career. The change was made under the section "1996-2004: Piazza, Bobby V, and the Subway Series"
Date of entry- 3/21/07
permalink- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Mets

Unexpected Deletion of Wiki articel "The Seawane Club"

For one of my four blogs, I decided to create a blog about a local country club called The Seawane club. Unfortunately a few days ago I went back onto wikipedia to see how the article was devloping and found that the article had been deleted. I am not sure exactly why it had been deleted because I kept the information very neutral and objective. The message that Wikipedia had provided didnt give a clear explanation as to why it was deleted. Per my blog post on febuary 23, you can see that I only listed general contact information about the club, and various services the club offers. Within the near future I am going to re-establish the article and see how the wikipedia community reacts.

Edit #2 to "New York Yankees" wikipedia article

For my second edit to the wikipedia Article "New York Yankees", i added a sentenced that describes one of the many bright spots of the New York Yankees 2002 season. I added that Roger Clemens achieved his 300 win and 4000 strikeout in the same game. This addition was made under the section labled "21 Century". These are very important achievements for Roger and will definitely allow him to be a shoe-in into the hall of fame.

Date of Entry 3/13/07
permalink- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees

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From Slashdot, that was an interesting article that discusses the main reasons why Sony's Play Station Three console has not been performing well. A lot of people argue that the price is simply to high which detracts away many of the mild users who are just interested in game play. The price is currently around $600 which is not attractive to people who arent interested in the blue ray features and other memory advantages that are not extremely significant for less technical users. Even though the price is acting like a major deterent, I also feel that people are not investing big bucks into the video game console is due to the lack of games that Sony has released since its release. Playstation is not making the gaming expereince as attractive as the other competitors that are blowing the market away with new games such as X-box 360 and the new Nintendo WII. I feel Sony Playstation has to address these two issues if they would like to get back into the black with the PS3.
Date of Edit- 3/13/2007
Permalink- http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/13/2025226&from=rss

Post # 2 on class material

In response to our Skype conference call with Toby on Monday March 5, I thought it was interesting how she discussed the positive effects internet media can have on people who actively publish content on the web. This has become very popular as millions of people are posting videos and clips of themselves on servers such as YouTube and Rever. The specific example she highlighted was the two guys who published the video on Rever illustrating the effect of mixing Mentos candy and Coke. This obviously generated positive results for the two because Coke and Mentos liked the idea and was constructive for the two companies marketing campaigns in the future. One thing that Toby failed to mention though are the negative effects that people can experience by contributing to these sites. You obviously have to be careful with the material you post as well. Many people post material they may be inappropriate in the eyes of others and can negatively impact themselves. This doesn’t only apply to Youtube and Rever, but to other social media sites such as Facebook and Myspace. Many employers are searching these types of sites and you must consider all future implications when exposing yourself on the web.

Comment # 1 on teamatte Jess's Blog

In regard to jess's post about The Search and the issue of privacy, I was also unaware that you can pin point the location of someones home by simply typing in their phone number. Even though I was unaware of this, I am definitely not surpirsed. There is so much information that is accumulating on the web, this seems trivial now in comparison to what personal information can posibly exist on the web in the future. It is definitely a scary thought of what google may publish about you in the future for all to see. Jess's post in which I am commenting on can be found on her blog.

Post # 1 on class material

In response to the topic of Law, Privacy and Security issues on the internet, (discussed, in class 2/28/07) I never truly understood the negative effects that online gambling could have on the country. It is now apparent that online gambling can be an easy vehicle to promote money laundering, and even the transfer of money for illegal activities such as drugs and for terrorism. According to the notes the US is trying to crack down on this issue since security has become a major issue within the US today. The reason I am commenting about this topic on my blog is because I have experienced first hand the tighter restrictions that are being applied to online gambling in the US. When I used to play online poker, I began to receive resistance from my local bank when I tried to electronically transfer funds from my account to the website. They put a block on the transaction and did not let it process over the internet. I had to personally call and follow up over the phone to perform the transaction.

First Edit to "The Seawane Club" Article

For my first edit to this article I just gave a breif overview of the club. I actually just created this article so it is still in its infancy stage. Within the article I also gave the address of the club and some contact information in case people need to reach out to the club for any questions.
Date of post- 2/23/2007

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Edit #1 to "New York Mets" article

For my first posting on the New York Mets article, I clarified the section 1962-1968: Lovable losers because it wasn’t clear on how the Mets acquired Tom Seaver. Within the posting I just expanded on the origional content by specifying the process in a few sentences. The content I added is “Even though the Mets remained in last place, Tom Seaver was a sign of good fortune to come. He was originally signed by the Atlanta Braves in February 1966 out of the University of Southern California, but his contract was voided by Commissioner William D. Eckert on the basis that the USC season had already started when Seaver signed. In order to resolve this issue, the Mets, Indians, and Phillies were all placed in a hat since they were the only teams willing to match the Braves offer, and the Mets were fortunate enough to win the drawing”.
Date of Post- 2/19/07

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Edit #1 to Rockville Centre, NY

My first edit to my hometowns article added a breif overview of the public school system that is in Rockville Centre. I created a new section in the Article Labled "Rockville Centre School District" which labeled all of the public schools available.
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Date of Edit- 2/19/07

Edit #1 to "New York Yankees" article

Since this was my first edit to any wikipedia article, i made it a fairly minor one. As every one knows, Babe Ruth is a well know character in New York Yankees history. So I decided to add a stat that exhibits his greatness as a yankee. Under the section " The Ruth and Gehrig era", I added "The Babe accumulated 2,213 RBIs over his career which ranks second in Major League History, and totaled 1,971 as a Yankee which is second best in the Yankees team history" in the second paragraph.
Date of edit 2/17/07
Permalink-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees#The_Ruth_and_Gehrig_era

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From Slashdot, there was an interesting article that addressed the issue of funding for Wikipedia and its current revenue generating method. Many fear that without utilizing ads to bring in revenue, Wikipedia will not be sustainable over the long run. I thought that this was an interesting article because it is very relevant to our class and is a sensitive topic that has divided many. I do understand why many would be opposed to using ads, because Wikipedia is running great and we should definitely try not to fix something that isn’t broken; but I am not sure if it can remain sustainable solely on donations. Even though some revenue structure should be devised, I definitely agree with the positing that ads should be avoided at all costs. Corporate influence can create biases in a lot of the information and can potentially take away the communities objective stance. This is apparent in many of other media such as newspapers and magazines. Even though I feel some solution should be worked out in the near future, I agree that Wikipedia doesn’t have any shot at closing down. It has developed into to great a tool and I feel the community would not let that happen.
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Introductory Post#2 Due Feb 19

I feel that the major purpose of our individual blogs is to familiarize ourselves with this new multimedia technology that is becoming integrated within the marketing function of many firms. Through this medium, individuals around the world now have the ability to interact with one another more freely. This is significant for corporations since it can be considered a cheap source of advertising and promotion. Companies can maintain their own blogs in order to make their activities more transparent, and can also gauge consumer perceptions more accurately and cost effectively by tuning into consumers feelings. By maintaining our own individual blogs, we will become more familiar with this communication medium that should be significant in our futures.

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I will be graduating from University of Delaware this may.

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