My First Assesment Post

Well here it is the final blog entry before my assesment. It is a little scary but I have learnt a whole lot from my experience with blogger, flickr and del.icio.us so far and I can't wait to learn more this term. Firstly I will address the question of interestingness. I thinnk this is a very subjective term and depending on you and your interests anything may have any level of interestingness. Overall I have focused on television production and some aspects about it. I think I have made some interesting points on my Blog and shared some interesting sites through del.icio.us. Flickr has enabled me to share some of the photos I like with my friends especially those ones from productions and assignments.

In my blog I have completed 15 blogs posts (including this one). I have worked steadily over time and covered a variety of areas both related to my blog aim and some random ones. I particularly like this one on Supervillians and this one on the real Homer Simson. I have extensively used tags for my blogs as well as pictures and links. I was very pleased to work out the Ink Roll, counter and Technorati things which are on my blog. I have also looked at the different templated fiddling with font size type and look to achive the modern low key look of my blog. Relaxed corperate I call it. I like commenting on others post that I can relate to like this one on Candy and this one on Music.

Next up is my flickr account. It took me a little while to get around the idea of just looking and exploring images but I really like it now. I have several contacts which whose images i regularly look at an sometimes comment on. I have joined a group about Television Transmission and there are some images I find really interesting and with another classes assignment about broadcast envrironments the images helped to visualise more complex environments. I like benig able to show other people my images and especially the landscape ones from the helicopter and around Wollongong. I feel that this site is a great way to easily present a visual portfolio or happy snaps to far off friends and family. I like this picture from skindogg86. It was good to relect on some good times in the TV studio. The image tags really help finding the right image and I have used them extensively. The batch tools were very helpful for processing my images.

Finally del.icio.us has been very helpful for me as a tool for my assignment and to keep track of those weird sites you find from time to time. I used it to track some of the websites I used for research and it really helped for checking the back on information and confirming references. I also was able to use it to forward websites to some of my friends that wanted to know where certain sites were. The tagging this was gold here and realy helped to organise my links and find other I might be interested in. Bundling is super good. I have about 40 links but have used many more from networks. It is really interesting to see what other have found on the net.


All these wesites have helped me in some ways but I think I need to work more on integrating them into my daily workflows to get the most out of them. It's good then that I have another term to do this.