I plan to further develop a past project for project 8.

I think I will probably continue looking further into project 5, where I swapped the position of the authors name and article title on the NYTimes. This was a great concept and I think if I spent more time I could create something neat.

My other option would be to continue with my food instagram account and then create a website of my findings, but Im not sure this would apply well to what I need to accomplish in project 8. OR I could do something more with my project where I deleted prices, because that was a interesting concept as well.

For my observe this week, I wanted to show how theSkimm draws the readers attention through an email news website. They usually make the Topic of the message short and catchy and do the same with the layout of subject material in the email. They use informal language to draw readers in and only talk about the bare minimum while still providing the necesary details. For someone like me, I think this is great because it saves me time from going to a formal news website such as FOX, CNN, of NYTimes and covers just enough so I can get the gist of whats going on. They also provide hyperlinks so you can refer to a subject of interest more in depth. I think theSkimm is a great way for a busy college student to make time for news.

I decided to do my ERASE project on a shopping platform, because when it comes to online shopping I have a problem. It’s so easy to scroll through a website and just click “add to cart” when you see an item, discount, or reasonable price. With that being said, I created The Anti-Shopper user script in order to hide the most important components needed to online shop. I thought it was appropriate to use an example from the Illini apparel website, and I made the “add to cart” button, price, details, and description disappear. How can you online shop when you don’t know anything about what you’re trying to buy!

// ==UserScript==
// @name         The Anti-Shopper
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 1.0
// @description Removing the price, the add to cart button, description, and details
// @require http://arts445.courses.bengrosser.com/files/ready-vanilla.js
// @require http://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.3.1.min.js
// @run-at document-start
// @author       Jessica Glasson
// @match        http://store.fightingillini.com/Illinois_Fighting_Illini_Ladies/Womens_Fanatics_Branded_Navy_Illinois_Fighting_Illini_Primary_Distressed_Arch_Over_Logo_Long_Sleeve_Hit_T-Shirt*
// @grant        none
// @run-at document-start
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {

var j;

function main() {

    j = jQuery.noConflict();

    j('#addToCart').each(function() { hideElement(this); });
    j('.price-value').each(function() { hideElement(this); });
    j('#product-details-disclosable').each(function() { hideElement(this); });
    j('#product-description-disclosable').each(function() { hideElement(this); });

    ready('#addToCart', function(e) { hideElement(e); });
    ready('.price-value', function(e) { hideElement(e); });
    ready('#product-details-disclosable', function(e) { hideElement(e); });
    ready('#product-description-disclosable', function(e) { hideElement(e); });

    function hideElement(e) { j(e).hide(); }
}

main();

String.prototype.contains = function(it) { return this.indexOf(it) != -1; };

})();

For my observe this week, I decided to pick option 1 because facial recognition popped up on my Facebook page. I think someone may have done this already but it caught me off guard so I wanted to use it for an observe. I thought this message this was a strange way for Facebook to bring up an “important” topic because I was aimlessly scrolling through my Facebook page hoping to see videos or posts with not that much text (because that’s what I’m most interested in on FB), and I was surprised to see a whole paragraph of text in a random message from FB. Normally, if I see huge paragraphs of text on my home page feed I will not even acknowledge them, because I’m one of those people who uses Facebook for pictures and videos, but because it was from FB I was intrigued. I feel like Facebook made this post in such a subtle way that it was almost meant to be over-looked, because they could have easily sent this message out to users through an inbox or notification system so users would be forced to read a notification, but instead, it was slyly inserted in my home feed which I thought was interesting. 

I pulled up Google and I’m not sure why I JUST noticed this: maybe its new? maybe I’ve just been oblivious to it? But there were 4 moving balls just to the top left-hand corner of “Google” that I’ve never seen before.

They were moving in this swirly motion and I starred at it for like 2 minutes straight. Not sure what Google achieves by doing this..but it made me forget what I was going to type into the search engine!

Things I could erase from a website

1. the search bar function on any page
2. headings on pages (News pages Specifically)
3. the title of any page
4. any numbers (dates, etc.)
5. remove the word “like”
6. remove all visuals (pictures, videos, etc)
7. remove all periods “.”
8. remove the letter “a”

 

(function() {
    'use strict';
var j = jQuery.noConflict();

    j('a').text("LOVE ONLY: It's VDAY!");
    j('div:contains("taxpayers")').css('border','1px solid pink');
    j('div.powa-shot-image.powa-shot-click.powa-shot-click-play').fadeOut(5000);

})();

(function() {
    'use strict';

var j = jQuery.noConflict();

    j('h1').fadeOut(5000,fadeBackIn);

    function fadeBackIn(){
        j('h1').fadeIn(5000);
    }


    j('p').css('border','1px solid blue');

    j('h2:contains("Child Abuse")').text("Wishes He was the SuperBowl Selfie Kid");

    j('input').hide();

Website 1: The NY Times

j('a').prepend('Dilly,');
j('a').append('Dilly!'); 

Website 2: Wikipedia

 
j('strong').css('border','1px solid red');

Website 3: theSkimm

 
j('a').prepend('totes read '); 
j('p').css('font-family', 'Courier New');
j('a').css('font-family','Comic Sans MS');

Website 4: Fox News

 
j('a').css('backgroundColor','yellow');

I was visiting a news source website called theSkimm and once I clicked on ‘Daily News’ a subscription ad popped up. I guess this didn’t really surprise me because I feel that no matter what website you visit these days, they almost always ask for your email. I wanted to post this for my observe project because I’ve yet to make a blog post about getting asked for my email, which happens almost every time I visit a new site.   

j('h3.menu-heading:contains("Arts")').css('background-color','lightblue');

j('.mw-headline, a:contains("edit")').css('border','1px solid green');

j('.a-text-bold p').css('border','1px solid red');