Nonsensical Ramblings of a Scary Muffin

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All you need is time - Tuesday, March 22, 2005 at 1:48 p.m.

It seems that I have had a slight miscalculation. I forgot that the blogs were due on week 12. I will follow my itinerary still, but I'll do the connection post and the final post consecutively together next week. No movies for segways today, let's just move right along shall we?

MSN groups
I am part of the Naruto Manga MSN groups. However, I'm a member, not for the people, but for the content. Aside from that, MSN offers very little in terms of communication choices. There is a chat, but that requires other people to be online to be interesting. The message forum is similar to that of webCT's, however the categorization of topics is much better. There isn't seperate chain links for each comments (which makes reading very difficult). Instead, it is more like a modern forum. For each thread, there is a page for the starting post and a link for all the replies. A "recommendation" system is in place where some posts may be ranked higher than others and members can recieve added benefits. However, it is rare for anyone to pay any attention to this as there are no counters or anything of the sort to make results apparent. As well, added benefits are only available if the group leaders create them. If they do not, recieving recommendations for your posts will not account to much, thus this system is poor in terms of regulating the quality of posts.

Xanga
The link to my own Xanga page can be found on the side bar or by clicking here. As you can see, I have not updated for quite some time and I have found that this is true for others (at least my friends) as well. Xanga is essentially another blogging site, though not as customizable as blogger. Visitors to sites may post comments on blogs and give out "eprops." This is a unique element in Xanga not found in other blog hosts such as blogger or livejournal. However, a quick browse through the Xanga FAQ, we find that eprops don't really account to anything. The only thing one may get from receiving eprops is a chance to be featured on the xanga featured content page. However, that requires a lot of eprops and is very rare. Xanga further makes this system redundant by defaulting the comment system to give 2 eprops, the maximum number per comment per post, instead of zero. Like with MSN, Xanga does not do much to encourage high quality postings.
- Cheers,
MrScaryMuffin

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