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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Technorati vs. Digg
Both Technorati and Digg are blog sites made up of different stories floating around the internet.
The difference between the two however is that the blogs on Digg are popular because of the users rating the blogs while Technorati pulls blogs that have been the most popularly viewed through the different sites.
The topic that I chose to compare was country music.
For Digg the first three blogs were
1.Hank Williams wins Posthumos Pulitzer Prize. 310 Diggs
2.File Shareres Save until Muisc Biz changes laws 566 Diggs
3.Crazy County Fair Food: The Pork Parfait. 310Diggs
Technoratie
1.The Boot (Taylor Swift Flys to Auburn for Hugs) 729 Down
2.TwnetyFour Bit (Mark Ronson Produced Album) 661 up
3.Aquarium Drunkard (Music Blog) 865 Down
I think after checking both sites out it was definitely easier to follow Digg then it was Technorati.
I wasn't sure how users really rated technorati. There were a lot of hits on the first and third blog but they were red, and arrows down. But then the second blog had the least hits (out of the three) but had a green arrow.
Then as far as the content was concerneced, honestly on both sites for all three blogs I didn't really find the content useful. I didn't really care about the content so I wasn't intersted in what was being discussed.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Andy Hamm - Wachovia = Fail
Once Heather put the information out there, it was only a matter of time before other users began to spread the word. A perfect example of cooperation, people saw what Heather had to say, agreed with it and spread the news on to other friends.
After enough people found out about Wacovia's unjust actions and the rally finally gained Wachovia's attention, it was time for a change. Wachovia was forced to reavaluate their fees and through collective action, many voices were heard and an unexpected conclusion was reached.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Brenton Sharpe – Wachovia=Fail
People then started to join and inviting other friends to join along with them by commenting and telling others of their own experiences with the bank. This in turn was the start if the (Cooperation Stage).
After the Facebook page “Wachovia = Fail” started gaining attention from several users and other news outlets, Wachovia decided to wave and refund the fees that it had charged customers through donations. Through (Collective Action), users made a difference by making a stand therefore making Wachovia retract its policies.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Megan Morrow - Wachovia=Fail
After several people joined the "Wachovia=Fail" group, it turned into the cooperation stage. People initially acted by joining the group, and then continued to cooperate by commenting and inviting friends to join.
After gaining attention from not only several users via Facebook, but also news outlets, Wachovia decided to save face and reverse their charges. Through collective action, Facebook users were able to see real action being taken. It all started with one group created by one Facebook user.
April 6th Nicole Meraviglia
In Class Writing - M. Owens Simpson
When Heather Lynn's credit card was charged an extra .30 cents for donating to a Haiti relief fund, she channelled her anger and disappointment into a "group activity" in protest against Wachovia bank. Just as the author Shirky would say, Heather's group activity evolved in three stages to achieve its peak effect. She shared (stage 1) her frustrations with the world by creating a facebook group called "Wachovia = Fail" detailing what happened and what she thought about it. Heather then, of course, sent out friend requests, in order to rally people around the cause and educate them on the matter. As her friends and peers accepted the friend requests, and forwarded the group page to even MORE friends (cooperation, stage 2), knowledge about Wachovia's extra fees and Heather's cause grew. Wall posts and comments added in the cooperation for expanding the group and creating a group focus. Finally (stage 3 - collective action) the focus was born, which was that Wachovia should get rid of this fee when people are merely donating to a relief fund. Eventually, Wachovia could not ignore the growing protest, and the story was picked up by other online sites and news organizations. All of this combined, forced Wachovia to change its policy, after the three stages of Shirky's group activities was successful.
Kenneth Applegate 4.6.10 In-Class Writing
ODU Student protests Wachovia
Heather Lynn's Anti-Wachovia Facebook Page, How it relates to group activites
In Class Writing April 6 - Thomas Raines
jillian baylor in-class writing
William Viola In Class Writing April 6th
By posting her argument on a facebook group page she was able to get her story out to many people and allow them to share it with others throughout the social networking site. As it got bigger and bigger the cooperation spread the story on to other sites and was able to gain major support. With all of these people feeling the same about the issue they were able to collectively act as a force to get the changes they wanted. In the end if Wachovia had not made new policies then they would have lost many valuable customers.
This is a great example of how people are able to work together much easier now with social networking groups than ever before.
Victoria Croffie April 6th in class writing assignment
The first stage is sharing and this is seen in the Wachovia article when Lynn made a Facebook page describing her disagreement with the bank. By setting up the page and sending it to her friends she allowed her thoughts and views to be shared with the rest of the world.
The second stage is cooperation and this is done by Lynn when people after becoming privy to her Facebook group and Wachovia's doing they band together to show their own disapproval against the bank via posting to the group discussion and joining the Facebook group.
The final stage, collective action is more clearly seen with better resultys when supporters of Lynn closed their accounts with Wachovia and voiced their opions to the bank. Enough of a complaint was made against the bank that they reversed their policy. If it wasn't for the sharing that Lynn originally did none of this would have come into fruition and therefore the policy would never have changed.
In-class writing assignment
Megan Byerly - In Class Writing Due April 6th
In Class Writing due April 6th
Ina Chandler- Writing Assignment April 6th
The cooperation stage started, when people saw others thoughts on the fee because they wanted to respond and be heard. So when others saw that many people had joined the facebook page more and more people joined. And more and more poeple expressed their opinions in response to other people's opinions.
Lastly, the collective action stage started when Wachovia saw the responses from the many people on the facebook page. They then decided to drop the fee so they would not lose members. So the collective action from all the people on the facebook page made Wachovia drop the fee because they saw the responses from others. Therfore, Heather Lynn made a facebook page to share her thoughts, many people started cooperating beause they saw others cooperating, and collective action resulted in the change that Heather protested for. And the change was made from so many people responding to something that they felt was wrong.
Monday, April 5, 2010
In Class Writing- April 6th
In-Class Writing: April 6
Danielle Bevacqua: In Class Writing: Due April 6 2010
Shirky's three steps can be seen in the event of Heather Lynn's activism against Wachovia, starting with the sharingstage. This first stage would be when Lynn decided to make the Facebook page, "Wachovia = Fail." This is the stage that is the most minimal, in which the information is just getting out. During the second stage, cooperation, would have been when people started joining her Facebook group and changing their behaviors to mimick hers. Lynn removed the majority of her money and moved it to another bank. Once others joined the group, it was said that they too moved all of their money out of Wachovia and closed - in some cases- multiple accounts. This stage would continue as more and more people joined the group and shared the same actions. The last stage, collective action, actually would be as previously mentioned where people actually moved their money to other banks. This collective action- the movement of multiple accounts all around the same period of time- by many different people, would be the collective action of the group.
April 6th Writing Assignment
With sharing, she made a facebook page to vent her frustration with Wachovia's policy of charing an international fee for a donation and then sent the page to all her friends so they could be aware of the situation.
For cooperation and collective action her friends (once they had recieved the request to join) then shared the page with their friends. People who heard or read the story soon started closing their accounts. The controversy surrounding Wachovia became so huge that Wachovia Spokesmen Edward Terpening had to address the issue.
Wachovia was going to change its policy regarding charging international fees on donations made and was also going to refund everyone including Heather Lynn, the 30 cents which was charged on the donation.