Lidia's Blog!

Assessment #2

2007-06-14T11:44:00.000+10:00

Well, MPI204's nearly finished and i enjoyed it. Although i still find blogs hard to keep up with and maintain, i can see the use and enjoyment in them now, and im sure i will continue doing things to mine and posting on my blog. Ive tried really hard to include my Blog, Flickr and Del.icio.us into my normal internetting. Everything I've put onto these sites are of interest to me, and the same aesthetically (although my blog background refused to change no matter what i did and i followed instructions), but i cant speak for others who view them because they may not like the same things or colours as me.
I used my blog more as a place to store things i liked incase i forgot how to find them on their websites. Im not much of a writer (or ver good at it) so although i tried to write posts too, i liked how i was free to show thinks i enjoy in lots of different ways like posting up clips and pictures and links to sites. I changed the colours and font of all the words on by blog so that it looked nicer and more colourful.

Flickr is a really good site how you can post pictures and view other peoples so conveniently. Joining groups and posting to them is also really good, because once you find a group thats interesting to you, you can view hundreds of images straight away. I posted pictures of things i did and pictures on the internet of things like movie posters and background i enjoy. The websites i posted were of ones that i thought were set out nicely and easy to use (aesthetically pleasing). I really like my Flickr site and what ive done with it.

Although i probably didnt use Del.icio.us as much as I could have, i did find it useful to store websites i want to keep going back to. I do find the favorites bar at the top of my internet screen quicker to use, but i like how on delicious there are descriptions and tags. Tags are awesome because when you type in something that you want to look up, heaps of peoples sites will come up with something to do with that, sort of like a search engine thats been filtered to only interesting one that people enjoyed when they found it.

I used to think googling and email was pretty much it, but Ive learnt to do so many new things on the internet, realising just how powerful it really is. I feel like i have a presence on the net now and am more confident using it.

Technorati

2007-06-14T11:37:00.000+10:00

I ckecked my rank on Technorati and my new rank is 664802. Not too shabby!! :)

Visitors to blog

2007-06-14T11:09:00.000+10:00

On the multimedia blogspot, it used to i have to put a counter on my blog (which i did a while ago) or make a Sitemeter account. i got a bit confused because i wasnt sure if we had to do just one or the other so i signed up to sitemeter anyway. Sitemeter is like a counter that also tells you the kind of people that visit your blog and what times of the day they look at it. Honestly, im not too fussed about who looks and what time they do it, but i signed up the other day and the little button didnt come on and it hasnt said anyones looked at it :( might be because i already have a counter on it... i tried!! So yeah, i guess the visitors to my blog are just me and people in my class.

blog background (help!)

2007-06-07T20:40:00.001+10:00

blog background (help!)
Originally uploaded by castelid1

I give up. The damn background wont change and ive tried everything for like a month. so screw it. this is the picture i made that WOULD have been a really super background, but no. its not. oh well. just imagine its there....

Dove - Evolution

2007-05-28T21:55:00.001+10:00

This is insane. how crazy. See... pictures arent real!!!

Pharmers crawl

2007-05-27T16:26:00.001+10:00

Pharmers crawl
Originally uploaded by castelid1

Us at the Pharmers crawl -alter ego theme! funfun

Technorati

2007-05-27T13:44:00.000+10:00

Technorati is a search engine for blogs. you can search blogs and tags and it ranks blogs from around the world.
Its different from google because it searches only in blogs instead of every type of website. when signed in, other peoples blogs can be read without going onto it like an rss feed.
Technorati gives you a rank and authority which are measured by the blogs popularity, how old it is, how many other people link to it, etc. Right now, my rank is 815,820 and my authority is 6.

Aesthetics

2007-05-26T20:40:00.001+10:00

On the internet, aesthetics is the how visually pleasing something like a website or blog is. Aesthetics is important because if someone thinks a site is super ugly then they wont stay on it and look at the information unless they have to (like for an assignment).
Functionality is really important in web design because if it doesnt do what its supposed to, like have the info it says it does they'll exit and google another one. Legibility is also obviously really important because if the text cant be read easily then the information wont be read.
Ease of navigation is vital because if its too complicated and not straight forward and a person cant figure out how to get to what they want they'll get annoyed and exit.
I think Ebay is an aesthetically pleasing site. Its easy to use, has a purpose and is set out pretty nicely! The white background and black text make it easy to read and everything is categorised well.

Harry Potter 5 The Order Of the Phoenix - All 13 new clips

2007-05-23T09:09:00.001+10:00

The Simpsons Movie trailer 3

2007-05-22T16:50:00.001+10:00

Harry Potter Trailer!

2007-05-22T14:08:00.000+10:00

Candy Mountain

2007-05-22T14:04:00.000+10:00

Google Reader

2007-05-10T13:49:00.000+10:00

Having to choose an RSS reader between Bloglines and Google Reader, i chose Google Reader so that i wouldnt have to make another login and remember another password because im struggling with the amount of those i have to remember as it is! And google is usually kinda straight forward so i assumed it'd be ok to use. And i just put an RSS feed thing on the left bit of my blog that shows the last 5 del.icio.us posts ive done! :)

RSS and XML

2007-05-10T13:29:00.000+10:00

RSS is used to publish frequently updated things like blogs and newsreels. When something is in RSS format, it can check the feeds for changes and recognises them which helps people stay informed and saves them from having to visit lots of sites individually to see what has been updated. It is an XML based format.

XML means EXtensible Markup Language. It carries data across the internet and is important so that data can be shared.

Counter

2007-05-02T14:50:00.000+10:00

Free Counter

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Assessment for MPI104-2007

2007-05-02T14:20:00.000+10:00

By doing this blog and having del.icio.us and Flickr accounts, I really did learn some super stuff! I thought they were pretty pointless at first (im not much of a blog kinda person) but now I see how theyre useful so that we learn how to use things on the internet. Before this I pretty much only knew how to google things and use hotmail. I didn’t know how to do anything like uploading pictures or make the blue clicky icon and am really happy I got to learn how to do that. I found it difficult to update and upload stuff very regularly, mainly because I don’t own a computer (but will in about 3 weeks!!) and I also didn’t own a camera but I bought one a week ago. (but cant upload pictures from it yet because I cant install the program onto anything until I get my computer).
I think all my blogs have intererstingness because I've put up pictures, websites and things that I find interesting and fun. I dont really get how we're going to be marked for that, because someone else might not care how many days it is until harry potter come out (curse you) but I do, so therefore it has heaps of interestingness because I like the things on it.
I think I've done most of the things on the list for each blog. I know I havn't done all 50, but the things I havn't done (for all of them) are just some things I havn't figured out how to do or tried and the computer froze (not kidding, it happened quite a few times, especially on blogger). I hope I have more than the mimimum posts, and I really like how I can put the news in the sidebar of blogger.

Flickr

2007-04-30T22:47:00.000+10:00

Omg i FINALLY figured out the url for my flickr thing! look look look riiiiiiiiight here

Movies

2007-04-23T16:50:00.000+10:00

I went and saw Happily never after and TMNT last week with one of my mates! and they werent to bad!! Theyre both animated and i thought they were done pretty well. both of them got a little bit slow at times but pulled through.

Happily never after plot outline courtesy of IMDB "An alliance of evil-doers, led by Frieda (Weaver), looks to take over Fairy Tale Land. But when Ella (Gellar) realizes her stepmother is out to ruin her storybook existence, she takes a dramatic turn and blossoms into the leader of the resistance effort.

TMNT outline, again courtesy of IMDB : Strange events are occurring in New York City, and the Turtles are needed more than ever, but Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo have become lost and directionless. With the city at stake, it's up to Leonardo and Zen Master Splinter to restore unity and ninja discipline to the Turtles."

2007-04-17T16:11:00.000+10:00

Doman, at Toga Night

2007-04-10T12:47:00.001+10:00

P2280608
Originally uploaded by castelid1.

I finally scabbed some photos! I really gotta get a camera.

Countdown for Harry Potter Book 7 AND 6th Movie

2007-04-10T11:50:00.000+10:00

*excited scream*

lidiasbeach

2007-03-29T13:52:00.001+10:00

lidiasbeach
Originally uploaded by castelid1.

matt rocks
... ^ (written by him :P) this is where i live!!! a good 10 hour drive away from uni.. :( and no, Wagga does NOT have a beach.

de.licio.us

2007-03-22T14:34:00.000+11:00

I made a delicious site ! have a look!