last, final, additional wikis

With the inceasing anxiety of senior course requirements i revisted my wiki articles contributing a last touch-up for the semester.
After reading an archive Guitar World interview i added some Vito Bratta solo philosophy, and style comparisons.
Jim Macpherson's album credits were expanded as well as his latest tour information and related band departures.
Steven Drozd's wiki received an updated influence/style section - upon a rediscovered album review/interview. - as well as a general re-formating

wiki- Vito Bratta comment

Vito Bratta is mostly an unsung and underappreciated guitarist. Despite my difficulty with username recognition, whether it was signing in(which i doubt) or some other classification misfortune, i am proud but not finished with my contribution. Although when i first saw his wiki it was merely a list of 5 topics spoken about in an interview and a snippet about a produced record -i then had the opportunity to add at length his expansive equipment preferences, musical approach, and influences. All that i have added still leaves me with the feeling more needs to be written. I did not exprience any negative edits, or did i witness any substantial additions. I hope with more research and a better sense of the picture adding process i can include some candid photographs of a musical missing legend.

I noticed some of my additions were classified under 68.46.105.54 among other sets of numbers including the word Talk - this may be related to reference issue that was posted throughout the semester. I apologize for the confusion, and i assure my compliance to course requirement.

please read and add to the wiki article @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Bratta

wiki - Dave Tough comment

Dave Tough barely had a wiki, which is why i wanted to contribute. If you have read any of my previous posts about him or his wiki, you can see the respect, value and meathook heartbreak myself and many others have for this thin kid out of Chicago. I noticed once i started to add a bit with maybe too much subjectivity, others joined in not editing me back but instead adding in their own insight, discography and liner note nuance. At one point a user wanted to join this wiki with a music based wiki edition and I did not object - i just wanted to appropriately add some much needed flesh to a great talent's electronic history. - and i think because of this class i did.

read more@

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tough

wiki- Steven Drozd comment

I have always been a big Drozd fan, because of his infamous and identifiable drum work. I was intially concerned with my selection, considering the Flaming Lips rising popularity, but was surprised by the low level vital stat birthday, birthplace approach to his wiki. After adding some specific info as to his training, and background a fellow wiki user added a picture block with a strip of headlines, which in combination with my text-only equipment and project mentionings, fleshed out the wiki's appearance. I hope with our large addition to the article, the page will continue to grow. I had a difficult time adding pictures due to the wiki copyright steps, and hope others can add some lifeblood to the page of an admirable and innovative musician.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Drozd

wiki- Jim Macpherson comment

I selected JM mostly because, aside from his birthday and a few band affliations, there was not much of a wiki article for him. A reason for this could be his lack of mainstream popularity and subsquent lack of information about him. Through a lot of interview and note reading i was able to amass a collection of facts and accounts of his style and background. Since it was and is a low traffic article, i did not experience much content editing from other users. In looking back, and once being someone who first discovered wikipedia and spent hours jumping from topic to topic, i am proud to have assembled a little something for anyone who, like me, is impressed or interested by the creativity and perserverance of a talented, and underappreciated drummer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Macpherson

6 class comments

here are the links to the comments i have made on my classmate's blogs

http://18commitments.blogspot.com/2007/05/required-reading.html
http://18commitments.blogspot.com/2007/05/commenting-on-ryan-isberts-blog.html
http://jlawilliams.blogspot.com/2007/05/adsense-added.html
http://jlawilliams.blogspot.com/2007/05/margaritaville-wikipedia-edit.html
http://jlawilliams.blogspot.com/2007/05/kids-paying-their-parents-taxes.html
http://mannyf.blogspot.com/2007/05/minor-problem.html

Los Dinos Knows-Throwing Good cars after Good? teamate blog comment

A classmate's blog has recently mentioned Yahoo's Green Challenge. Yahoo hopes to increase ecological awarness by noting the greenest city in the country. The winning city in turn will receive 10 hybrid cars to decrease CO2 emissions. Although the publicity could make an impact, don't you think the worst city in the country should get the hybrids?

Somehow i think L.A. may need the help

------------------------ although maybe more cars isn't the answer.

read more about Yahoo's Green Challenge
@ http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625852

or more blogworthy comments by Los Dinos @ http://18commitments.blogspot.com/

Adsense

i forgot to mention the ease of adding Adsense a few days ago. After completing the process prompted through the Google Search page, i noticed through a team members experience that blogger has an Adsense option as part of its layout feature. I accessed Adsense through both and now have an alternating Adsense content Ad and a search bar Ad. This was a little unexpected but i like the variation it presents.

Jim Macpherson, Dave Tough and Vito Bratta wiki edits

I focused on the project changes in both musicians' careers. Tough's mostly being overseas, as Macpherson remains intermittent as a floating featured drummer. Additional background information and interesting facts were noted towards the botttom of each wiki.
see them both here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Tough
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Macpherson

Also i have noticed i received a tab to join my Vito Bratta page to a

Wikipedia Guitarist project. From this i tried to reorganize the format and wiki classification of its presentation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Bratta

Recently the redesign of the page has seemed to alter the usernames of the all the contributors- obscuring the record of my additions. Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

Flickr's call to arms

Recently and related to our class discussions concerning YouTube/Google, rights laws and corporate responsibility, Flickr has been prompted by industry professionals to combat the reproduction and sale of copycat trademarked art through on-line retailers. Flickr has yet to repsond with an official reaction. I would predict more and more content consumers and producers may look to internet networks like myspace, or YouLoot to help police content/copyright improprieties.

this link notes one account of a photographer's plea for help
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/05/16/1247201.shtml

Wiki_additions to Vito Bratta-Jim Macpherson

I have added some additional background on JimM. as well as some equipment preferences of the legendary Vito. If anyone is interested in Vito's 20 year absence from the music scene, a candid interview was conducted by Eddie Trunk on Feb. 16, which sheds light on his disappearance, the rumors, the myths and the surprsing facts of where the talent went and why.

both wikipedia articles can be found at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Bratta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Macpherson

also the Bratta interview can be found exclusively at Eddie Trunk's radio webpage.

!!!-the peasants revolt-National No Gas Day-

i have been receiving a lot of e-mails about a national gas boycott on the 15th of May. I was wondering if anyone else has gotten hip to the latest digitized uprising of the masses? -and if they think one day of bicycle littered streets and tumbleweeds blowing through the Wawa pumps will actually make an impact?

if it does make the news, or a difference it will be amazing to think what else you could organize through mass emailing.

graduation for all i say - we're taking the Tub

WIN DVD responds to AACS HD code break

During class, the implications of open source and copyright law have been talk about. Although breaking codes and publicly displaying them isn't really open source, the AACS HD access code has already reached millions. The recent development has allowed HD and Blu-ray format video to be posted without fee on the internet. Microsoft has responded with a mandatory update(nullifying the key's ablilty) for its Windows video viewers. Not complying with the update will negatively effect future use of windows players.
for more see slashdot's related articles
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/07/1417253&from=rss