I just made my 2nd Wikipedia edit about the show "Weeds."
The show's theme song is called "Little Boxes" and was originally performed by Malvina Reynolds in the 1960's. The first season plays her original song as the theme song for every episode, but the 2nd season has a different artist playing the song. Some of the artists include Death Cab For Cutie and Elvis Costello. My edit to the page was listing these artists in order of episode featured in the Miscellaneous section.
You can see the page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Wikipedia Edit- Hammocks
My most recent wikipedia edit is about hammocks. I really enjoy hammocks so I thought it would be interesting to learn about their history. I added information to the history section about the materials that hammocks were originally made from. You can see the page here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammock
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammock
Monday, May 7, 2007
Wikipedia edit- cusquena
I just made my 2nd edit to the wikipedia page for Cusquena, a Peruvian beer. It's harder than I thought it would be to get information about this beer, but with translating pages in spanish I am able to find some. For this edit, I wrote about an event that I read about called the Cusquena Open, which is a tennis tournament that occurred in December of 2006, that is going to become a yearly event in Peru. I'm sure that these events will be a very good marketing and promotion strategy for the company. I am curious to see if Cusquena ever becomes more popular in the US, as it seems to have become fairly well known in the UK. You can see my edit here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusquena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusquena
Wikipedia Edit- Weeds
Weeds is a show on Showtime about a fictional California suburb called Agrestic, and the distribution of marijuana throughout the town. The main character, Nancy Botwin, became a widow, and made the decision to start selling marijuana to maintain the lifestyle the she and her two sons had become accustomed to. In my wikipedia edit, I added the two soundtracks from the show that have been released and the track listings for each of them. I have always enjoyed the music in this show. Here you can see what I added:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds
Sunday, April 8, 2007
wikipedia edit #2
My most recent wikipedia edit was for the page about the band Motion City Soundtrack. They are a pop punk band that I've been a fan of for a few years. I've seen them live a couple of times and I think they're great performers. In my edit, I made a section for the most recent tour dates. The band will be touring places in Europe such as London and Paris. You can see my edit here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_City_Soundtrack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_City_Soundtrack
Scrapblogging
On the Diva Marketing Blog, I learned about scrapblogging. I like to put pictures on the internet of me and my friends, or trips I go on, but I typically use yahoo photos. A lot of people also like to use programs like webshots. These are easy and convenient but not as versatile as scrapblog. On the website, you can take a quick tour of how to use the program, and its very easy. It's like creating a scrapbook online, and you can even add videos, music, and narration. Changing backgrounds, rotating pictures, adding borders, colors, clipart, etc is so easy and can make pictures a lot more interesting to look at. After watching the quick how-to video for the website, I will probably try to make a scrap blog for some of my photos.
www.scrapblog.com
www.scrapblog.com
cell phones on airplanes
Everyone knows that when you fly you're not allowed to use your cell phone for the majority of the time that you're on the plane. I always wondered what the actual reason for this was, and how dangerous it could really be. There are interesting blog posts on Slashdot regarding this.
One of the reasons stated for this is that it gives the airline the ability to manage the crowd better, especially in the case of a dangerous incident. This makes sense, because even on a standard flight with no problems, a certain amount of cooperation is needed between the customers and the workers. The same person said that the airlines also like to keep passengers ignorant about the ground conditions.
Other arguments were that it was a way for the airline to make more money from the phones provided in each seat and that a call from the air would require the phone to use up too much bandwidth from too many cell towers.
What the public is generally told is that a call could interfere with other systems on the airplane.
I think that if cell phones really were a danger, passengers would not be permitted to take them in their carry-on luggage. Everyone seems to have their own opinion on this matter, but I'd be curious to find out what the real reason is. Either way, I don't think that it's too big of a deal to not use a phone for a few hours.
One of the reasons stated for this is that it gives the airline the ability to manage the crowd better, especially in the case of a dangerous incident. This makes sense, because even on a standard flight with no problems, a certain amount of cooperation is needed between the customers and the workers. The same person said that the airlines also like to keep passengers ignorant about the ground conditions.
Other arguments were that it was a way for the airline to make more money from the phones provided in each seat and that a call from the air would require the phone to use up too much bandwidth from too many cell towers.
What the public is generally told is that a call could interfere with other systems on the airplane.
I think that if cell phones really were a danger, passengers would not be permitted to take them in their carry-on luggage. Everyone seems to have their own opinion on this matter, but I'd be curious to find out what the real reason is. Either way, I don't think that it's too big of a deal to not use a phone for a few hours.
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