I live in Nebraska, home of "Go Big Red" football. And they really went in the recent game with Colorado... down the tubes! Whether you like football or not, you can't avoid noticing it. In the shopping malls and in the grocery stores, radios are playing the game over the loud speaker.

I have some family here in Nebraska. My parents live here as do most of my cousins. I'm an only child. My mother's relatives live in Germany and Australia. My mother is from a beautiful country, Latvia, which used to be a part of the U.S.S.R.

For hobbies, I enjoy webbing, music, doing puzzles, and making webpages. I also help out in some HTML newsgroups, both at Yahoo! Groups and Usenet. I'm just so pleased that I learned HTML at 40+ years of age. Now, I can make low tech webpages with ease. I haven't graduated to JavaScript yet. But, I'm pretty good at copying and pasting.

They all think it's great! My friends seem to be mildly impressed, which is kind of nice.

My friends are mildly impressed that I do editing for a search engine. I'm not sure that they really understand what I do, or perhaps the Internet does not have the same meaning to them as it does to me. It's sort of like an "Oh wow, but I'm not sure what that means" kind of response.

November 25, 2000

I've been wanting to do something like technical writing or manuscript editing. I saw this as a chance to do some editing for a search engine and I jumped at it. This is my ideal job. lol

No, I don't have it anymore.

It seemed complicated, at first. I just did my best to add all the unreviewed and then went to clean up the titles and descriptions.

I thought that they could use help in such a category. Calculus gives a lot of people problems in college. It can be the one course that keeps a person from graduating college if their degree requires it. I sympathize, because calculus was challenging even for me. And, I'd never been truly challenged in a math class before that.

I'd like to edit Photography, Personal Home Pages, and maybe even high school algebra.

Photography is one of my hobbies. I'm not really serious about it like some people, but I still enjoy capturing a mood or interesting site.

As for Personal Home Pages, I think it would be fun to see what people put on their home pages. I like to see the different styles and topics that people pick.

And, high school algebra is something that I'm very well versed in. I've taken all the algebra courses offered at the high school level and enjoyed working with it.

That would be interesting, but a little mind boggling right now. I would like to get this Biotechnology category cleaned up with unreviewed and edit for ODP guidelines before adding any more new categories. I just got editing privileges with about 350 unreviewed. It's now down to 250 unreviewed. It's fun, though. I also have the HTML and Calculus categories. I get quite a few new submissions to the HTML category. Not too many in the calculus category, but I should go out and look for new sites for all these categories once in a while.

Meta editor sounds hard. You'd have to be assertive with people, and help them to correct situations. I'm not sure if I'd like to do that or not.

I like the questioning one. That's how I am. Always questioning things. lol

It was a little hard at the beginning adjusting to some totally different categories, like the Photography category. I had to look all over to figure out where to place sites. But, once I had the most common categories added to my greenbusters page by using related category links, I was all set.

It has been very rewarding and interesting. I've also been greenbusting for the biology category. I forgot how much I liked biology, so that's quite a dividend. Also, I think my descriptions are little bit more interesting now. They were getting a little dry after writing for the HTML category for a while. You can only say "Covers fonts, backgrounds and how to add images" in so many different ways.

Definitely! Not only will it help improve your editing stats, but it will also give you some more variety and a chance to grow as an editor.

When I see a really significant page and am able to add it to the directory.

Trying to read a poorly designed webpage with poor navigation.

I really admire Orlady, Merlin1 and Lundlinks.

Orlady was very nice to me when I got turned down for a category that I applied for. I worked on the categories that I already had and applied for the category of Biotechnology. I might not have tried again to reapply for another category if it weren't for Orlady.

I admire Merlin1, because she really has done a great job overseeing the greenbusting operation. She looks through many of the reviewed sites and moves them to their tagged categories. I don't even want to think about how many hours that she's putting in on this. I'm glad she is getting some good help.

I admire Harry Lund (AKALundlinks) because he helped me with the HTML reorganization. I couldn't have thought of such a neat and organized new system of subcats for the HTML category. He did a wonderful job on that.

I would advise them to read the ODP guidelines, with special attention to the title and description section. I would suggest they examine their category subcategories and see how their category structure is set up, and then read the category description to see what should go in that category. And, be sure to use the spell check feature when editing a listing. It's so useful and such a time saver. Finally, it's often quite useful to ask questions in the New Editor's forum.

- dlugan