Wednesday, March 5, 2008

My #1 happens to be Top 10!

When I began to search for wikis I had a hard time finding a subject that I was well informed about. Each page I went to I learned more than I could add. I visited wikis dedicated to Law and Order( SVU of course!) hip-hop, Old Navy, and truffles…just a few of my favorite things. Each page was so well designed and researched that I was intimidated by the amount of knowledge these people had on the page. Here I call myself a fan of these things and I could not think of one thing of substance to add. Also in my search I think it is important to talk about the things I happened to stumble across. First there was EntreWiki, which a “paid wiki site for Entrepreneurs who are looking for Money Making Business Ideas” as the descripation says. I have a real problem with this. Wikis are supposed to be free site for people to go to get and give ideas…again FOR FREE!!!! Secondly I was playing around with the search engines on wikiindex and did a people search. 116 pictures popped up of who had profile on wikiindex. I was amazed at the diversity of the people. Although they were prominently male, they ranged in age, race, and nationality. For example one man looked well over 70 and appeared to be Middle Eastern. Fascinating!!! You never know where your information is coming from. In my search for a wiki that spoke to me I also came across several wikis that I thought would be of interest to my friends and family members. For example my cousin is a project manager and there was a wiki for that. My partner and most of my friends are HUGE Wire fans…yep they have a wiki as well!! So my journey in wikiland ended when I found the wiki Top Ten http://top10.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page. It’s a wiki that lists the Top Ten…..well EVERYTHING! Songs, Bush quotes, cities, reason to call off work, I love it! I decided to edit the Top Ten love songs of the 90’s page. I wasn’t sure how to add links, lyrics, and all that fancy stuff so I hope someone comes behind me and edits my post. I’m starting to think that wikis are way cooler than blogs!!!

1 comment:

Courtney said...

I feel the same way you did- I'm pretty intimidated by all of this! It's great that you were able to find so many interesting things.