Reading Response Blog 2

1.)The civil war in Liberia lasted from 1988 to 2003. The conflict was primarily over the diamond trade, which is one of Liberia's main exports. In the year 2000, the UN accused Liberian president Charles G Taylor of supporting the RUF. In 2003, Taylor stepped down and was exiled to Nigeria. In 2006 Taylor plead not guilty to crimes against humanity and war crimes. Today, like much of Africa, Liberia is at peace and attempting to make the diamond trade more legitamit.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Diamonds#Liberia

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Maja Einstein is the younger sister of great scientist Albert Einstein. Maja was the only friend of Albert during his childhood. When little Albert saw his sister for the first time he thought she was a kind of toy and asked: “Yes, but where does it have its small wheels?”This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Maja Einstein". This entry is a fragment of a larger work. Link may die if entry is finally removed or merged.

I think it is being removed because some of the info like how Maja was Einsteins only friend is hypothetical and not factual.

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Web 2.0 - Websites and technologies that combine user created content, social networking, and new publishing technologies such as blogging,podcasting, and wikis (Frauenfelder 59).

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College Humor.com
Right away you can tell that the website has came a long way. In the original,there is no links or sponsors and in the current site there is tons of both. The current site has way more activities and events that are posted. The old version has next to nothing as far as entertainment goes, at least in comparison to the current version. The site kept its idea of what it is trying to do, which is entertain college age kids.
http://web.archive.org/web/20000816192316/http://www.collegehumor.com/ Older Version.
http://www.collegehumor.com/ Newer Version