change

Hey, I was so much thinking about my wiki, that I went back and figured out how to make it public, so now, if you click on my link down there, you can see it.

Project Finale

For my project, I of course had to make some edits. I added a couple of new pages, resized the pictures, edited some of the text, edited the links on the side bar, and resized some of the text to make it the same. I really think this project was beneficial to me. It was something I had no experience with and wouldn't have done if not for this class. No offense to the blogger people in the class, but I think making a wiki is more challenging and creative than a blog, which is something we all have experience with already. I think I could have easily done a blog on my topic and done fine, but I'm glad I picked the wiki because it is different and taught me about a valuable topic that can only grow in importance in the future. I think if I had to do it over again, I would use a different site than PBWiki just to experience what is different, though PBWiki was very good to me. I have to admit there were times where I wanted to pull my hair out over this and times when I doubted my ability to do a good job. But now I think that this is good and I am proud of it and what I learned from it and tired from all the time spent on it.

This class was very beneficial to me because I had never heard of Web 2.0 before coming in. I found out just how much I already used it but knew nothing about what I was using. I used to use Xanga for a short time in high school, so I knew about blogging a bit but the wiki was new. I didn't even realize I was able to edit Wikipedia before I took this course. I was really looking forward to learning how web 2.0 is going to change in the future, but now I realize we must wait and see for ourselves. I think my favorite part of the class was reading other people's blogs because it is always fun to know what other people are thinking.

Here is my link to my wiki

more for today

I must write another blog entry so I can get 4 for the week, so I'm doing 2 on the same day for the first time. Maybe I should discuss why I am making a wiki on how to get in good shape. I have a physical wellness class I am taking and it is really interesting and I think that there are alot of different ideas about getting and staying in shape, so I thought people would want to learn about it. I am writing about different types of effective exercises, ways to recover, and foods you should eat. This PB wiki thing is kind of making me mad right now, because I made a new page earlier, but forgot to save it, so now the thing is gone and I just realized it. Oh well, I guess I can just take more time to go back and find what I was writing about and do it again....

work work work

Today I have spent about the last 2 hours preparing my Pbwiki for presentation and completion. I plan on working on it still more today for a good amount of time. I have written some new entries and started linking some of the pages together as well. I probably will go play clean up now and try to make some of the different parts of this look cleaner (better). I do like doing this stuff, especially the entries because I am learning more about physical fitness as I go along as well. It seems that there is a ton of interesting info about exercise and fitness and all of it is stuff you read and say "wow, i should start doing that" and yet at the same time think "man this would be hard to commit to". I think it is good exercise just working on our projects alone. Yeah that was a pretty lame joke.

great day

Today I didn’t work a lot on my PBwiki, but I should be playing around with the pages and entries that I am doing. I guess I’ll be spending most of my time doing the wiki now, so I really don’t know what to write for this blog. I guess I could write about how much it sucks to stay up all night working on essays, and then having to go to class the next day and not sleep at all that day. It puts you in a really bad mood and makes you not care about anything at all and gets you irritated when you realize that you have more stuff you have to work on, but part of you really doesn’t care and the other part says just do it. I’m not sure if what I am writing is even making sense because I can’t even remember what the last sentence I typed was. It makes me wonder if we should practice free writing when we are tired and irritated. I guess it could be interesting to read because your entries come off sounding like you are angry. Maybe someone should try it.

April 30 entry

I think everyone here is in agreement that classes just know how to pack on the work at the end of the semester. It is good that in this class we have had good time to work on these wiki’s we are making. Unlike some classes, which decide to add more to the work load and the last second, it’s pretty ridiculous but it happens to everyone every year so whatever. I think that I will be spending a lot of time on my wiki, making it my main focus to finish after tonight because I have a big paper due tomorrow that I have been focusing mainly on the last couple days. I wonder if I will prefer the traditional work of writing essays for English classes or doing a Web 2.0 project? It seems like both involve a lot of writing and research, but I think Web 2.0 requires more research because it isn’t opinion oriented like many essays we are assigned.

The new media

I read an interesting article earlier about Web 2.0. This author is talking about how sites like Myspace and Facebook are becoming everything to everyone. He talks about how he expected people to grow bored with just adding friends and looking at pictures after a while, and so these sites had to adapt and add other stuff like applications and advertisements to keep it interesting and to attract more people. The author seems to think this Web 2.0 spells doom for traditional powerhouse media organizations who have to sit back and watch regular people be able to do everything they want and look at pretty much whatever they want on these social network sites. I guess this guy has a good point about the media companies. It is so easy to get access to different media on Facebook and Myspace, so these companies are probably going to have to adapt and create their own versions of 2.0. The link to the article is herehttp://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/04/web_20_expo_rev.html