Last Five Years 2nd post

I love The Last Five Years. The lyrics are incredible and the story is just heartbreaking. I chose to add a little to the Wiki article in the section discussing each song as the play progresses and what message they are giving to the story. The final song of the show (which just happens to be my favorite) is entitled "Goodbye Until Tomorrow" and it is sung by both characters (Jamie and Cathy.. the only two in the show). The premise, simplified, is that this couple met,got married and then Jamie left her. BUT, the story is told fowards by Jamie's songs, and backwards by Cathy's songs. So at the end of show, Cathy is singing about being excited and breathless after meeting Jamie for the first time and how she is saying goodbye until he calls tomorrow..until he calls. Jamie, however, is actually singing goodbye.. forever. I decided to include a lyric sung by Jamie that explains that he tried to keep the marriage together and love his wife, but he couldn't and now he must say goodbye. My edit was, "He says to her, "all I could do was love you hard, and let you go"." Check out the article on Wiki. They do a fantastic job of explaining the show.

Las Cruces, numero dos

Whenever I visit my Grandma in Las Cruces, we do a number of things. We go hiking in different springs, travel to White Sands, go to the farmer's market,explore Mesilla.... and go to Stahmann's Farm. Stahmann's Farm is a huge pecan farm that holds about 180,000 trees on its miles of farmland. It's fun to go and walk around the groves and see nothing but pecan trees all in perfect lines. There is also a country store which sells Stahmann products; my favorite being pecan pie topped with pecan ice cream! Although Wiki doesn't have an article for Stahmann's, I decided to add it to the places to see on the Las Cruces page. To find out more about this great farm, you can visit their website and maybe even order a little something pecan-y for yourself!

Second Hallstatt Edit

After spending more time of Wikipedia's site devoted to Hallstatt, I realized there really wasn't much interesting information. I feel that is there is going to be a page devoted to a town, there should at least be a number of things listed to help readers understand what it is all about. Through researching Europe, and different tourist attractions, I came across the big ice cave. I decided it would be nice to add this to Wiki's article in case soon-to-be visitors were scanning the page to learn more about what there is to do in Hallstat. Therefore, I added "The Giant Ice Cave is located in Hallstatt and is one of the largest in the world." Hopefully this may encourage others to explore the many exciting points this Austrian town has to offer.

Hallstatt Wiki Edit

I chose Hallstatt, a tiny Austrian town, for my final Wikipedia article. As I have mentioned in earlier blogs, I will be traveling through Europe this July, and stumbled upon this place in a book entitled "Europe Through the Back Door" (which is excellent, by the way. Highly recommeded.) The article featured on Wiki about this town doesn't really do it justice and states mainly background information such as history. I thought it would be helpful to include a bit of information that goes a little something like this: "Hallstatt is a popular tourist attraction due to it's "to town" appeal and can be toured on foot in ten minutes flat." You can check out my edit here!

Today's Class

Today we had a speaker come to class to discuss search engine optimization. He discussed how some websites are set up to produce certain results from different searches. They can make changes that might not be noticeable to the customer, but optimize the structure in order for easy extraction of the page by search engines. He talked about Google quite frequently which was helpful because I was easy to follow what he was saying by different examples he gave that I see on a daily basis. I'm not quite sure what his job is, but he did cover a lot of difficult information and made it relatable to our class and what we are currently studying.

Wiki: Las Cruces

I have chosen to edit the Wikipedia article about Las Cruces, because I visited there a few weeks ago for spring break and absolutely adored it. The article discusses the highlights of different areas of the city, and highlights the downtown area. They do discuss the farmer's market and churches, but failed to mention anything about the art galleries. These galleries were my favorite part of visiting downtown while I vacationed there, so I thought I would give them some credit. You can check out my edit by going here.

Katie's Blog

Katie chose to write about about John Batelle's new interactive webchats. Personally, I think these are a great idea because they promote ultimate consumer interaction. He is not only organzing these e-chats, but he is making them as personal as possible by drawing from customer recommendation about what they would prefer to discuss. She tells us that people are actively posting ideas, and this engagment alone is positive for Batelle. To read more of what Katie had to say and to get linked to the actual article, click here!