Teamate Comment #4: Jleans' Blog

I decided to comment on Jleans blog entitled "Amazon Price Discrimination--Class discussion"as well. A little repetitious but you can check it out!

Teamate Comment #3: Cullenoscopy

Just wanted to note that I commented on Cullen's blog entry entited "My roomate is blogging now!" You can view his blog and my comment at http://cullenoscopy.blogspot.com/index.html

Class Comment # 4, Virginia Tech

In class last Wednesday, we discussed how blogging had an effect on the reporting on the tragedy that happened at VA Tech last week. I realized while watching MTV last week that our classmates were not the only ones discussing the subject. MTV news featured a young student named Cody, who blogged about the days occurences as they happened. It's important to note that VA Tech's website was shut down because of too much traffic last monday night, and Cody's blog was the only way that some students were able to track any updates. In a time like this, its really amazing to see how much the media has evolved to allow more of an "insider view" for the average person.

Cody's blog can be viewed at http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1557266/20070416/index.jhtml

Blogosphere Comment #4: "Dana Vanden Heuvel's" weblog

While looking through Dana's blog, I stumbled onto an article entitled " It's 2007, Do you know where your local internet listing is?" I found the article to be very interesting. She ( or he, i really dont know) noticed that often times, when businesses are searched within Google, the results are far from perfect. In fact, she even found that her own website had a flaw...it was linked to another website. After reading the article, I decided to search my father's business on Google to see what the results would entail. To my surprise, there were no results. His business is relatively small, but I can't believe my technologically impaired father hasn't even created a website. The business has grown very fast over the last couple of years, but I can only imagine how much more growth would ensue if he would just make a measily little website. I'm gonna hafta have a little talk with him when I go home.

Wiki Edit #5: Chi Omega

I edited the Wikipedia page about "Chi Omega." Here is what I added:

[edit] Chi Omega Quotes
"Chi O's were ideal partners for all occasions. They were discrete, desirable, tactful, polite and fun. Every mom dreamed of her son coming home with a Chi Omega..." -David Letterman-
" A Chi Omega isn't something you just become...it's something you've always been."

[edit] The Purposes of Chi Omega
In 1895, the six purposes of Chi Omega were established in order to preserve and enhance the values of each member. The six purposes are:
1. Friendship 2. High Standards of Personnel 3. Sincere Learning and Creditable Scholarship 4. Participation in Campus Activities 5. Career Developement 6. Community Service

stiuqxela

I was just thinking about our search engine experiment with the word stiuqxela...I'm surprised that although most of us had blogged about the word, only 24 results for yielded @ google.com and www.packers.com was the last result listed. I wonder if every blog entry with the word stiuqxela only counts as one, even if it is listed multiple times within the blog. Therefore, I am gonna conduct a slightly different experiment with this blog entry, and blog the word multiple times to see if stiuqxela yields more results. Here we go...stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela stiuqxela.

Blogosphere Comment #3: Deal Catcher

Since the creators of dealcatchers.com are visiting our classroom this friday, I decided to take a look at the website to see what it was all about. I found the website to be extremely interesting. Instead of searching for hours on individual websites for price cuts and deals, the website allows you to see thousands of deals across different businesses. I found that you could even search for deals within different categories such as "apparrel." Also, the results of a search were listed in alphabetical order, making it much easier to find deals at your favorite stores. I'm interested to see how the creators were able to make a good product out of an excellent idea.