Mountian Biking Trail Edit 2

The following was edited and added to the Mountain Biking WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE. It also contains a link for furthur information.

The Environmental Impacts of Mountain Biking
Properly built mountain bike trails have little environmental impact. Studies reported in the IMBA (International Mountain Bike Association) Trail Solutions manual show that mountain biking's impact is comparable to or even less than other forms of trail use. Trails deteriorate over time. To what extent do bicyclists cause this, and how does that compare with the impacts of other trail users?
Irresponsible use, such as using a trail when it is too wet, can be damaging whether on foot, bike, or horseback. It is clear that other activities such as horseback riding and ATV or motorcycle use are far more damaging. Improper routing or trail construction techniques may result in a trail that does not hold up well to any kind of use. Riding in rainy conditions can create ruts and holes in the trail, making it less usable.
For more details on this topic, see [Natural Resource Impacts of Mountain Biking].

Thats all for now folks!

Hand Drum Edit 4

I have finally completed my first set of four edits on the Wikipedia article drum, a musical instrument.

I feel that the WIki community has embraced the changes I have provided and was able to expand on a couple of ideas. For my final edit, I added another external link which I found to be full of usefull information which is under the following ... DRUMMIN' MEN-The Drummer's Resource

I then edited the links so they would all be uniform in appearence.

Next, I moved some information to allow the article to flow better. I finally added some extra ideas on the double role of hand and set drumming.

I guess the other editors on Wiki don't mind my edits, because as far as I can tell, they remain unchanged.

Loocsixela, loocsixela, loocsixela, HOW i LOVE TO SAY YOUR NAME

eVER WONDER WHAT ITS CALLED WHEN YOU CAN NOT REMEMBER A WORD, BUT ITS ON THE TIP OF YOUR TOUNGE??

Well, this is what experts call loocsixela.

Loocsixela can be like that taste on your tounge that you can't discern.
Loocsixela can be that thing you just can't spit out.
Loocsixela, its that euphoric tingle that connects your mind to your body.

And I really dont know where this awful feeling on my tongue comes from every time I think of that damn word....Loocsixela, Loocsixela, Loocsixela,...

.....how I hate your meaningless meaning

Online-Marketers Beware! A story on Contextual Ads Dark Side

I found this on ClickZ Internet Marketing Solutions for Marketers .

The article is titled Contextual Ads: Online Media's Ace in the Hole.

Ever see those advertisements that correspond to whatever you are searching for. Search engines like google and yahoo offer contextual delivery of paid search ads. This ensures that ads relevent to your search are displayed and target the appropriate consumer.

But what happens if your advertisment goes out when there is some sort of horrible disaster?!?

For example say you are advertising for powdered donuts...but it just so happens that president Bush and Dick Cheney are hunting in the woods, Bush is eating your brand of powdered donuts, and Dick Cheney shoots him for some strange reason. Lets call this almost true article Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter.

Now if reporters made a big deal about the donuts, then your ads may show up in relation to the news article...(I know this is a huge stretch--and this may acctually help advertising)

But there's no need to worry...Contextual networks are well aware of the problem and have provisions in place to prevent contextual advertising missteps.

ContextWeb, a contextual advertising network, has a patent pending on its algorithm technology that sorts through an article's negative and positve words.

"On negative articles," Sarkar says, "the quantity of negative words in relation to the other words is higher, and therefore the article will get a lower ranking for a particular category." If an article is about a plane crash, for example, words like "plane crash," "ambulance," and "death," will rank higher than words like "travel," "hotels," and "holiday."

I find all of this extremely facinating. It is crazy to see how numbers control the world

Yet another Drumipedia edit

For this edit, I decided to change up the descriptive paragraph on the drum and its head. The previous edit made little sense {unless you are seven}. I added a quick link to the Caribbean steel drum wiki and fixed a few grammer mistakes.

I also see that on the past hisory, there are now multiple editors showing up, but I am still trying to figure out if they are re-editing my work, or just the work others are taking out.

The paragraph I changed up now reads as follows...
Drums with cylindrical shells can be open at one end (as in the timbales) or can have two drum heads. Single headed drums normally consist of a skin or other membrane, called a head, which is stretched over an enclosed space or over one of the ends of a hollow vessel. Drums with two heads covering both ends of a tubular shell often have a small hole halfway between the two drumheads; the shell forms a resonating chamber for the resulting sound. Exceptions include the African slit drum, made from a hollowed-out tree trunk, and the Caribbean steel drum, made from a metal barrel. Drums are usually played by the hands or by one or two sticks. In some non-Western cultures drums have a symbolic function and are often used in religious ceremonies. The sound of a drum depends on several variables including shell shape, size, thickness of shell, materials of the shell, type of drumhead, tension of the drumhead, position of the drum, location, and how it is struck. They are sometimes used in sending signals. The talking drums of Africa can imitate the inflections and pitch variations of a spoken language and are used for communicating over great distances.

So that makes three edits on the drum and four edits for the semester and with my work finally caught up, I can now get back to what really matters...

Mountain Biking grammer edit

I decided to fix the mountain biking Wikipedia article for one of my four Wikipedia edits.

You can view some info on mountain biking at the following URL (blog subject to change at my will with no telling why)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_biking.

Not a huge change, but it'll get me by for the assignment.

Good night...l am going out to get drunk.

TO pick on you is TO be an admirer of TO blog

Take the survey...

The premise of my commenting on the blog of fellow blog mate Ali Keegen, at Ali's Blog ...is.. I finally figured out how to turn a word blue and link it to a virtually enhancing and eye tinglingly brain numbing piece of internet information.

This is where You can view her original post about the VALS survey and the comments to get an idea of what teammates are all about. Link each other up. Thats the way to success.

Lets class discuss nnummberr twooooooo....

So its the end of the week, and the beggining of Spring Break, and here I am posting up on Monday's presentation by Dana VanDen Heuvel, who presently serves as the Director of Business Development at Pheedo, Inc.

Dana had a lot of very interesting information concerning blogging, podcasting, and RSS, that struck me as interesting, as it did my fellow classmate Keith Nemzer. The newest technology to me, of these three, happens to be the RSS and podcasting method of distributing thoughts and ideas; not only to an eagerly listening niche market of information addicted everyday people, but to also anyone who may find the information being broadcasted worthy of their attention.

RSS, as Wise Geek, defines is a useful tool for keeping updated on your favorite websites. RSS makes use of an XML code that constantly scans the content of a website for updates and then broadcasts those updates to all subscribers through a feed.

When a new technology comes about, early innovators tend to jump into the idea and really determione how it will blossom. This simple, yet revolutionary idea as shown in "How much has been invested in RSS?", an article on Dana's archives, shows that it is going to be the next wave of information gathering.

This information gathering will not be limited to just what companies are putting out to get your attention, but also can be used to gather new housing opportunities, business opportunites, job openings, and a host of other thoughts that are up and flowing through the "nerd mainstream" as Slashdot puts it. (haha).

This is the way all software disputes should be!

So as I was browsing my latest news feeds on my Bloglines RSS feeder, I came across an interesting story from Slashdot. The story is short, so I'll post it here...........

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday March 24, @03:35PMfrom the get-in-the-ring dept.

utki writes "The Moscow Times is reporting that the chief software architect at Russian software developer Cognitive Technologies, Andrei Smirnov, recently won a boxing match organized between himself and a software pirate he caught selling bootlegged software CD's at a Moscow market. At last, a practical and entertaining model for dealing with software piracy (MPAA and RIAA take note), and perhaps a useful way to channel Steve Ballmer's aggression too."

Now, I know this is a discussion, but ALL i REALLY want YOU all TO know, Is that in times as volitile as this, long drawn out court processes should no longer be a hold-up for due-process. As an American, I believe that we should have the right to challange someone to a boxing match if they STOLE something that belonged to us. Be it stolen software, TIME, money, LABOR, goods, PROPERTY...let the person who was ripped off be given the decision, if they choose, to solve the problem with a boxing-match. Let the ticket money sales go to the challanger.

Any other thoughts on the matter???

Zydeco tie

**Blog Topic: Discuss how YOU have been influenced to make a purchase decision because of other customers' experiences that you were able to discover via the internet. **

I really am into any kind of instrument that doesn't take a lot of knowledge to play. That is why I am so fond of hand drums. You feel the beat and play the feeling... and I can do this without knowing any kind of musical theory.

So I am searching the web one day and come across this piture of some dude playing his tie! You can buy it here http://www.thundertube.com/zydeco.html
A washboard is as simple to play as a drum is to beat on... so, naturally I started to look for this item. I found one at my local music store and because of my internet experience, now am as funny looking as the dude in the picture.

Blogline requirement 1

For my first blogline article, I would like to comment on something from http://slashdot.org/
The article's link can be found at http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/11/0539237&from=rss

Inventing the Telephone, Independently
Posted by Zonk on Saturday March 11, @01:26AMfrom the i-invented-the-hippo dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There is a nice article about the history of the telephone at AmericanHeritage.com. Most of us know that Alexander Bell beat Elisha Gray to the patent office by mere hours to claim credit for the invention of the telephone, but did you know that two other inventors can also claim the invention, including Thomas Edison? Similar disputes about independent invention and patent ownership can be found regarding the television, the airplane, and the automobile. Maybe it really is true: the economic benefit of encouraging patents is like that of encouraging window breaking."

I find this extremely interesting in light of what we had discussed in class concerning the issues facing blackberry. Patent trolls with no intention of developing a product for their technology, are pushing patents through the legal system like crack to an addict. It isn't right for the technology producer to be penalized because there is a patent on a future application to a new technological breakthrough.

The system as it is now is a limiting force that restricts free thought and needs to be revamped. This is no longer the past. The way things used to work to keep order and fairness is no longer beneficial to a society with the right to create.

For more info- check out http://righttocreate.blogspot.com/2006/03/broken-windows-broken-patents.html

Can I do this?

For my next edit, I have decided to dig deeper into the links that are on the drum wiki and develop the connecting information to furthur expand the knowledge on types of drums.

I added a link from the drum cite and expanded on the link that I had created.
You can view this at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum
I hope that everyone who loves drums loves my changes.

I think I found myself

Hey everyone who might care. When I search for buehlerhead on www.gooogle.com , My blog and a barrage of other info pops up about me. I hope this is good enough to get some extra credit.

I think I found myself..You can see my results from the link http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=buehlerhead&btnG=Search

You can also see that I have an ebay acount where I sell shirts and right now I got this cool space suit for sale... Check it out.