ASSESSMENT NUMBER ONE.

In this post I am supposed to explain how and why I think my blog, delicious and flicker accounts are interesting and have some sense of interestingness within them. This brings me back to one of my earlier posts about interestingness. this post basically talks about who determines interestingness and really I determine what is interesting thus I write it in a post for everyone to read and if you don’t feel if its that interesting well then that’s up to you.

Over the past eight weeks or so I have written sixteen posts on my blog erin. which do include those first few posts which link you to my flicker and delicious accounts. At first I thought the idea of keeping a blog was silly as it’s ultimately like keeping a diary and I am the worst person to keep a diary, it goes on for a about a week or two then I forget or I’m too lazy to keep going. I do however think very highly of people who keep blogs about their lives on the Internet for all to see. To me it shows a sign of courage, I feel that whatever I write I will somehow be offending someone but over the past few weeks I am starting to get over it. I tried to make my blogs as interesting as possible but it was hard for me to find a subject matter so I just wrote random stuff that had happened in the previous week. I feel the post about zits. was the most interesting as everyone goes through it and my friend Bri is in a competition to win something, still not sure as to what yet but I found it interesting as none of my friends knew about what Bri was doing until I wrote a post about it which I thought was pretty cool.

I saw blogger similar to myspace in terms of the layout and background; you could either have a pre-determined format or create one from scratch, which is what I decided to do. I used a website called mygen which is what I use to create my myspace layout/format. I used a picture that I found a while ago just browsing through some random images and I thought it was cool so I used that, then I found out that it was hard to read the posts and other writing so I had to wash out the photo and make the text large and bold. I prefer having bigger texts as its easier for other people to read as well as myself.

I comment a range of peoples posts that I find interesting a few of these peoples are Viv’s blog and Matt’s blog these two blogs are totally different from each other and has a sense of individual style which I do find interesting.

I feel that I have successfully completed all the criteria on the checklist for blogger. It took me a while to complete but I believe I have done everything correctly.

I was really excited when I was told what flicker. was as I have heaps of photos that I want to share with friends from home and here in Wagga. Previously I have used photobucket, which was fantastic as I could upload as many photos as I wanted per month where as for flicker. there is a limit to the amount I can upload which is annoying so I had to determine which photos should have the privilege of being uploaded which is a tad annoying at times as I have to wait for the next month which ultimately means I will forever be behind in sharing photos.

Currently I have twenty-three contacts most of which come from the MPI-104 course. Having contacts within flicker. also allows me to work out who’s who and see what they are doing within flicker, blogger and delicious. I have joined many groups within flicker. I find this very useful as I can express my interests in groups all of Australia and even the world in some cases. Looking through different groups I have come across a few photos that I find attention-grabbing in some cases so I have posted them as my favourites.

I have commeted on a few peoples photos some of which include Nicks ninjas, Matts butterfly effect shot and Alice’s music picture just to name a few. Most of the photos that I have commented on are social happy snaps except for Alice’s photo on the guitar.

I have used a wide range of tags on my photos such as
- abstract
- interesting
- mpi104-2007
- tapes
just to name a few. Once I get different types of photos there will obviously be more tags than there are now.

I have not as yet figured out how to make flicker more visually pleasing but it is on my to do list in the next coming weeks when I work out the best way to do so. Thus at the moment it’s a bit bland though its main purpose is to share photos which I believe it is doing very well. Hopefully after next week I will be able to upload some more photos from the holidays that are interesting and the photos that I use for my photography assignment that deals with human intervention. I believe I have done everything that has been asked on the checklist for flicker.

I now feel that my delicious account is a vital role in my day-to-day relationship that I have with the internet. It allows me to save and easily find my favourite websites whilst sharing them with people who have the same interests as me. I have a small network at the moment consisting of eleven but it is slowly growing. My bookmarks range from fashion photography to low budget animations and all in between.

At first it was a little hard for me to use as I really didn’t visit that many different sites but going through the delicious home page and other groups I am finding more and more useful sites about interesting things and what’s hot at the moment. I have just recently completed the link roll for delicious and saved it on my blog, this means I have now also successfully completed all check points on the list for delicious.

Overall I think that being exposed to these different websites have helped me use the internet better as I have been able to share and search for items in a different way. It has been an interesting nine weeks and I cant wait to see how my thoughts will have changed the next time the assessment comes around.