"Growing Wikipedia Revises its "Anyone Can Edit" Policy"

In Katie Hafner's "Growing Wikipedia Revises its "anyone can edit" Policy" she writes of how Wikipedia advertises and attracts many people to the site because anyone can edit the entries on the website but they have changed things up so that some posts cannot be edited at all and some may take 4 days after registering to be able to edit them. She states "Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit". Unless you want to edit entries on Albert Einstein, human rights in China or Christina Aguilera.". Wikipedia has become very successful mainly because after a post is first made available it becomes more and more accurate as time progresses because more and more people stop by the post and edit it until there is nothing else to add and the post rivals any other encyclopedia. The site is not simply a collaboration of many peoples ideas, it is checked and edited constantly by a small group of individuals for accuracy and to keep tabs on slander and such that may be posted, this group of individuals may also see it fit to make some posts un editable due to constant changing by people for one reason or another.
After reading this essay I realized that I agree with Wikipedia on their policy on making some posts impossible or difficult to edit. It seems very appropriate that some posts that are hot topics or that are very controversial should be difficult to edit because otherwise people will ruin the posts and type very inappropriate things in the entry that some may find offensive. Overall I think that Wikipedia is a great thing and it is a true wealth of information but for the reasons discussed earlier I do not think this encyclopedia should be used for school research for there is a small chance that the information could be highly biased or just plain incorrect.

Clustering and Concept Mapping

In chapter 3 a main section of the text is on clustering and concept mapping which are very useful tools for generating ideas for an essay or paper. "in a cluster or concept map, you construct a visual representation of your ideas--how they might connect to each other." A cluster map is used by having one main idea in the center and simply stem ideas from the main idea for example if you have a main idea of animals some of the stems could include things such as habitat and predators. Concept maps are also very useful for being a more clear representation of cause and effect such as how two things are related. Another useful tool for generating ideas is the flowchart.
Flowcharts are visual representations of how an idea or event flows. "a flowchart indicates how things move throw a system. An example of when a flowchart would be useful is when describing the process of a relationship, meeting the person - dating the person - marrying the person.
In my opinion concept mapping and flow charts are very useful when designing and writing an essay or paper for school or another reason including as a citizen, as a professional and as a friend or family member. By creating a concept map or flowchart your ideas are much clearer and easier to see and there for they make it easier to organize your thoughts into one flowing paper.

ED'S GIRL ON THE HUNT

Ed's Girl on the Hunt written by "Ed's girl the Second" is a blog posted by the author about how she received a one in a million job as an intern at her favorite magazine. The author goes into detail about how she never thought this would happen to her and how when the magazine called her and asked if she wanted the internship she didn't even think about her answer she just blurted out the words "Yes. Of course" and then hung up. She then called everyone she could possibly think of and said something like "Did I really just accept?" at this point she didn’t even know if she wanted the job it was just a gut reaction to accept it. After speaking to all of her friends and family "…with all of the congratulations rolling in from the other line, my smile grew." they convinced her to start thinking it was a terrific thing and she was extremely excited from then on.
I believe that the blog format was the best medium for the authors writing. "Ed's Girl the Second's writing fits perfectly with the blog atmosphere and allows others to stay posted on her current situation from the beginning when she was first searching for a job and how she stated that she would have settled for working for any magazine even one she completely disagreed with because it was her passion although she doesn’t have to worry about that now that she has her dream job at her dream magazine. I enjoyed how the author used the blog as a format for teaching others the cut throat world of magazines and I don’t think the writers writing would have been read and appreciated by the same amount of people if the authors writings were to have been placed somewhere else and its enjoyable to see a positive situation unfold before your eyes like the authors story.