Thursday, June 11, 2009

Fin.

And so the end has arrived.
The curtain is drawing a close on what has been a very, very interesting and educational unit.
So the whole point of this final post is to reflect on my blog, which I feel isn’t really going to take up many words, at all, and I usually always have something to say!
Well firstly I will admit that I am not the greatest blogger ever, in fact I think that I lack the blogging humour, sure I’m witty in person, but I don’t think that it comes across well in a blog. To be honest my blog sucked at first, but as I learnt more about how a blog works and learnt all about networked media, my skills developed. Due to my shit start of my blog, I didn’t attract any people to begin with, and it’s a known fact that one has to attract people straight away to receive any attention, this is not only in reference with blogs, but a reference to life in general. My lack of grabbing anyone’s attention meant that I ended up with a grand total of two followers, AND, wait for it…..
ONE COMMENT!
Sure it is not a popularity contest, but it sure is hard to write about anything, when nothing has happened. But I will admit that I am fairly good at reflecting, so I know that my posts themselves are of good quality. Maybe everyone is jealous of this quality? Doubtful.
It did take me a while, but I think I have learnt the number one rule of blogging. GET OUT THERE! Make yourself seen, comment other people’s blogs, follow people; all in hope that they will return the favour. It appears that I did not learn this until about ten minuets ago; when it hit my like a ton of bricks, or perhaps it was a light bulb that finally switched on. But I do think that my blog could only really be interesting for fellow people in this unit, as well as the odd networked media fanatic, but I doubt that these people actually exist, or would bother with my little blog. I do believe that I have improved in my blogging skills, and that definitely shows with my more recent blogs, where I was able to find more information, and attach more to the blog, this of course was only possible when I had something good to talk about. And so this brings me to my three posts that I am supposed to nominate. These blogs are from three consecutive weeks, coincidence? I think not.
Three blog posts:
Week Ten – Web 2.0
Week Eleven – Multiplicity
Week Twelve – Data Visualisations

How was Blogger itself, you ask? Well I think that it was really easy to use, and perhaps if I had the confidence to experiment more with HTML, I could of created a cool looking blog, but I lack said confidence, but it was nice to know that this freedom was there. I only really had one hiccough with blogger, and I in fact blogged about it, appropriately titled ‘Blogger Sucks’

Overall I learnt a lot in this unit, and I don’t think that I will ever forget, due to the fact that this blog is so easily accessible. I can access it anytime if I so wish, to maybe remise about what was possibly my favourite class for semester one (I am still undecided). I especially enjoyed working on my geo-narrative as it was something that I had never done before, and when I showed others, they seemed really impressed that the story was located on Google Maps, of course I would have to admit that that was merely just apart of the assignment, but they seemed impressed either way. Actually all three assignments were something that I had never really explored before, which is great, as I came to Uni to learn new things, and this course definitely allowed this to happen.
Thank you for the journey into networked media!

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