April 20, 2007
Del.icio.us
Through working with Delicious this past semester, I have learned a lot about finding information over the internet. In order to post sites, I would search Original Signal and Popurls to find information in technology and entertainment for my blog.
In addition, if I wanted more entertainment news for my blog, I would read the America Online daily headlines or "google" specific celebrities that I had heard news updates on, such as Anna Nicole Smith or Britney Spears.
After I found sites that were of interest to me, or that I used in my blog, I would tag them to delicious for other users to find. In addition to posting, I used delicious to find other information I was curious about. I could use the "popular" and "recent" functions of delicious to find out breaking news that I could potentially use in my blog, or just for my own personal knowledge.
When I would tag websites that I had bookmarked, I would make sure to put every thinkable tag so that readers could find my bookmarked website. I preferred to view my tags as a cloud, so they took up less space and more tags could be viewed at a time.
Overall, I had a satisfactory experience with delicious and plan on using it in the future as a search engine, and to aid others in their searches.
Posted by mchughme at 01:13 AM
April 13, 2007
My Delicious new knowledge
Throughout the past semester, I have been tagging websites to del.icio.us on a daily basis. At first, I thought the site was pointless and was annoyed with the assignment. Over time, I explored more of the site's features and realized its value as a search engine.
Most search engines such as google and Yahoo place the websites who pay the most at the top of your search. With del.icio.us, I can see the sites tagged by the most people that are most likely the most useful and definitely most popular.
About half of the time, I would go to originalsignal and find articles on new technology to tag as IT. The rest of the time, I would simply search google , original signal and popurls for sites I found interesting or sites on entertainment, my blog topic.
Del.icio.us definitely proved useful when creating blog entries. I could search for articles other people had tagged on my topic of the week, or add new articles for others to view! Overall, I was very satisfied with my del.icio.us experience and may continue visiting the site even after BIT 200 is over!
To view my del.icio.us site, click here.
Posted by mchughme at 11:17 PM
Personal Entertainment
This week, I have been out of town in Mexico and away from the entertainment news. So instead of gossiping about celebrities and television, I thought i'd share an entertaining story that happened to me this week. I know i'm not anyone famous, but I think my story will still entertain you.
So I'm staying with my family at a resort in Riviera Maya and they had catamaran boats that you could take out for free if you were an experienced sailor. So naturally, my dad not wanting to pay for a lesson told the resort that he knew how to sail or should I say "understood the mechanics of sailing."
This is the resort that believed we could sail.
Despite our difficulty getting past the crashing waves, we finally made it out into the open ocean. We decide that a pier about a mile down looks like a good destination. As the pier gets closer and closer I suggest starting to turn around since turning was taking my dad quite a distance to do. He refused and wanted to get a better view, so we keep going and discover gigantic pots underneath us that are about a foot underneath the water's surface. These pots prevent our rutter from turning. I start to panic, and sure enough, we hit the pier. Everyone on the beach comes to laugh and watch my dad jump off the boat and attempt to manually turn it. Eventually he succeeds and we are headed back, but we are not in the clear yet! I slowly notice that the sail is starting to cover my body and within seconds I am buried! Somehow the knot came undone when we hit the pier and caused the sail to come loose. I completely freak out as no help seems to be on its way. Finally the Mexican waverunnerers see us and come to our rescue. We soon discover the only way to fix the sail is to knock the boat over into the water and manually re-string the sail. It was a long process that was not injury free, but in the end I got a free waverunner ride back to shore. At first I refused never to sail with my dad again, but then I realized how boring it would have been without all of the calamities, and I signed right back up to go sailing the next day! (Who would've thought my dad would have been allowed to go back out?)
Posted by mchughme at 11:02 PM
Conclusion
Final Thoughts...
As our blogged progressed, it was clear that Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears were the stars of entertainment this past semester. Anna Nicole lost her son, gave birth to a daughter, died of a drug overdose, and was part of a huge scandal to find the father of baby Daniellynn, whom we now know is Larry Birkhead. Ironically, Anna Nicole didn't contribute anything to the entertainment industry, no music, no movies, no television shows, and yet she has constantly been at the forefront of entertainment news.
Britney Spears saw her fair share of media coverage, as well. With her recent divorce, custody battle, rehab visit, dramatic image change, and nights out with Paris, she has constantly schocked the public and her diminishing fans. Although we have enjoyed covering her many escapades, we have to admit that we hope she comes through and can return to her days of pop music and cute boyfriends.
In conclusion, it has been a blast covering the entertainment news of the past three months. Thanks for teaching us how to do HTML Professor Walls!
Posted by bmking at 09:18 PM
Del.icio.us!
As a first time blogger, I found the area in which I have the most interest is current trends and entertainment. My Del.icio.us tags reflect these interests as many of them reference celebrity gossip or most important...clothing! I have tagged several webpages of my favorite designers, many of which are found on my favorite internet side ELuxury.com. Having never blogged before, I did not find the need to track any other blogger's website. I enjoyed searching the web on my own and tagged whatever article title seemed applealing. I have learned about many new technologies, which I would previously have not considered researching, had I not randomly search the Del.icio.us site. Overall, I learned a great deal about how to use Del.icio.us and I plan to continue using its features.
Thanks for teaching me about Del.icio.us Professor Walls!
Here is a link to my fabulous del.icio.us tagging page! Lisa's Del.icio.us Tags!
