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Process Documentation

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In this video Chef Greg gave step by step details how to cook a pieces of salmon. Even though the chef  made many jokes in the video; it was an easy video to follow to get an end product. The video was place strategically so that all of the steps was clear and easy to follow along.

 With respect to his accent some people may not be able to understand his accent; as I was reviewing the comments some viewers thought his accent made the video hilarious.

In my opinion the video was well documented and structured and I actually learn something new about cooking salmon with respect to the color it should be when cooked throughly.

Process Documentation

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I chose a video on How to Steep Tea.  According to David Wong, “There are three “how’s” of steeping: how hot the water should be, how much tea to use, and how long to steep.” Wong says that when you bring water to a full boil, your boiling the oxygen out of the water which can flatten the taste of your tea.  Next, he says that if you brew the tea longer than 3-5 minutes, you start to over brew the stems which causes the tea to become bitter.  Lastly, the amount of tea he suggests is 3-5 grams, which is usually about a teaspoon.  In conclusion, I do believe that the video was documented thoroughly, and I also learned new ways on how to make a good cup of tea.

Ties

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I chose this simple and easy video of how to tie a tie. Something that is apparently looked up often as this video has over 6 millions views. The man stands with his neck at the top of the video and starts off with a completely unfolded tie and then slowly ties the tie and explains the process as he goes. You can tell the video was shot fairly quickly as the quality is fairly low, however it is good enough for this purpose. The audio is and pronunciation is easy enough to understand as well. The video documents the process well enough, although there is a complaint in the comments that because the bottom half of the tie is not visible at some points, a man broke his femur trying to follow the video, however this of course is a joke.

William Maldonado:Criticizing Beef Chili documentation

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The documentation on a video which explains how make Beef and bean chili recipe made by George which was very clear and straight forward. Although nothing is written down and most of it is visual they do explain each ingredient they’ll use as it is added. The documentation on how to cut and prepare the ingredients is mostly visual with a little bit of vocal explanation since it is a video if one misses something one can always just rewind the video to the section you last remember listening to. After they show you how to prepare the ingredients they tell the viewer how to cook it, when to add it, and how long to cook it along with additional documentation on more specific details provided in a link which is in the about section of the video post on YouTube.

Critique of Documentation.

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I went to Wikihow to get a step by step on how to make a saline solution, I chose method 2 of 2.  Step 1 is to mix one cup of water and ½ a teaspoon of salt into a pan; it does ask to make sure the salt is iodized.  Step 2 is to cover the pan for 15 minutes and to allow the solution to come to a boil, within those 15 minutes it is recommended that you to prepare a vessel (jar or a neti pot) to hold the solution once it is done.  One detail that would have been appreciated for step 2 is how high I do set the temperature of the stove because too low and it might take longer than 15 minutes to bring the water to a boil.  In the final step your saline solution is ready for use; I plan to use it for a sore throat so I added lemon juice to the solution.  This walk-through does capture the process, the only critique I have is that the directions should be written in a more detailed manner.

Google, reading response.

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According to James Grimmelmann, “Whoever controls search engines has enormous influence on us all.” As I started reading The Google Dilemma, that sentence immediately reminded me of earlier in the class when Gatekeeping was discussed.  Throughout the semester we tried different search engines, yet they all seemed to keep track of what we searched.  The Talentless Hack section of the article goes into detail about this.  It also mentions Google’s system, which is called PageRank that goes around the web counting links where the pages with the most links will be displayed higher in its results.  This was accidentally discovered by a college student named Adam Mathes.  He then wrote a blog discovering a technique he called Googlebombing, which I found very interesting.

Hauptman, reading response.

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According to Bugeja and Dimitrova, “It would take five years for half of the online citations in journals to decay.”  Prior to reading these articles I was unaware of this, and some other useful tips that the authors shared.  What I also thought was interesting was the article saying, “Different online domains may be more stable than others.” So depending on whether a website ends in .org, .net, .edu, or .gov, the authors say some were more stable for online citations than others were.  I thought that this would be useful to know, especially since there are papers that require this and the semester is coming to a close.

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I agree with you in what you said; moreover, google has tools of utmost importance in searching which are fast and easy to edit.
Generally, dealing with google is straightforward from the first time since no programming or database skills needed, no software installation required, and make search results available from the most popular to least popular.
Google search engine is so good in “ordering” the most relevant sites at the top of the results list by rating sites based on how many other sites link to it with the capability to Integrate with Google apps.
Once again, I agree with your statement that, “Google has a lot of tools that people probably don’t even know about”.

documentation and sources

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Both articles are very interesting and informative. ‘Vanishing Act’ describe the problem with lifetime of sources for magazines and ‘Documentation’ explain the importance of source citing and commenting in a way of better understanding and presentation for readers and authors. The fact that internet source live for so short period of time force me to be grateful that Wayback Machine is already exist. From the other side, historical explanation of collaboration experience not helping to fight with plagiarism, as far , as I understand  Hauptman, the auditorium always should be smarter and more erudition then the author, otherwise they will be mocked.

 

Disappearing internet content

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This Article appears to cover how the internet isn’t 100% reliable when it comes to citations. This is of no surprise to me on an honest level as its man-made and bound to have some type of flaw to its work. One example is with sites like the Wayback machine. It might have a decent way of getting the images of how sites appeared at one point but it still has limits as it lacks the amount of servers to get every single website on the internet. I personally do not see this as ever possible however as the internet is an environment that is constantly expanding to no end. This just goes to show that nothing is limitless in our world.