Is it the end….
My top three blogs.
http://borts.tumblr.com/post/92101146/week-6
http://borts.tumblr.com/post/104449097/multiplicity
http://borts.tumblr.com/post/88130887/week4
Reflective post.
My blogs main content is for networked media, lecture notes, assignments and just general ideas. I used it more to post ideas I had and what I had learnt overall in the semester. I found something’s I blogged about didn’t even relate to Networked Media Production but it was fun to post it. It was somewhat like a diary. When I was surfing other peoples blogs I came across a lot of blogs that people used just like a diary, letting all their feelings and thoughts out onto the web. I didn’t really aim for an audience. I was more interested on how a blog works and what things make people interested. Like this one I have been following on Tumblr. http://thebackdoor.tumblr.com/page/3. This blog was one I just came across that interested me for no reason but it used photographs more than words to blog.
What I have learnt.
Favorite blog.
The blog I love the most is this one. http://creampuff.tumblr.com/. I love everything about this blog. I have read most of the content and I love every bit of this.
Not everyone keeps up with their blogs
http://www.monacome.com/2009/04/back-from-dead.html
Blogs come from different languages
Traffic
One thing about a blog that I had already known from a previous job as a web maintainer is that a blog’s content has to be original. Traffic can only be processed through Google or any other search engine if the content is different. Another way content can be picked up through what they call spiders in the search engine, is if a word is type a number of times in that blog. An example is, if you were to have a blog on chocolate to get traffic to that site and get fans of chocolate, chocolate would have to be in that content or blog a number of times but the content has to be original to get traffic. This will generate followers and comments onto a blog, something that my blog didn’t achieve.
Learning more…
Some things I learnt through out the semester was how networked media really worked. Such things as creative commons such a tool for artists or amateurs to get their worked used and noticed in a legal and cultural way. Also one of my favorite was:
Do you feel fine?
I couldn’t remember if I had mentioned this in my blog but I thought it was something that needed to be posted. I love all the videos and new things that appear on this website. I just keep replaying we feel fine video by Jonathan Harris. I love the way this system works and how just a few words that someone has said online appears on this website. I am just so interested in it. I suppose this is why so many people use twitter and Facebook. Everyone wants to get their feelings out onto the net. I suppose not for people to see but for them selves. To just tell someone no matter who is reading it, they know that someone has seen it.
I think one major thing I didn’t research enough was which blog site to set my blog up with at the start. I picked Tumblr because it seemed the most simple but it had its disadvantages. I tired a number of times to make my own background through html but Tumblr wouldn’t apply my html. Some times I lost some content for no reason. It was very hard to integrate other services like flickr, del.icio.us and youtube into my blog, so the simple way I went around it was through the “What you see is what you get” template and added them through the html in there. Although the WYSIWYG is one of those plugins that never seem to work with pasted content from Word, although I found the ways around it but that was a different learning experience altogether. Overall my site didn’t generate much or any traffic but it was successful in a learning capacity.
So is it the end..
This isn’t the end, I intend on posting more and keeping my blog up to date but using it more in a personal level.
