Assessment 2

I beleive my delicious, flickr and blogger accounts all show evidence of interestingness and are aesthetically pleasing.

Blogger- My blog includes posts about all sorts of things..most of whihc are random. For example this post about alcohol. Now this post may be completely boring to someone, but may alos be completly interesting to others. The aesthetics of this posts are quite good i beleive. The picture which has been inserted to the top left adds alot to the aesthetics of this particular post. I belive all posts with pictures look alot better than those without. Here is an example of a post without a picture. The difference between the two are very noticable, i beleive. Thats the thing, aesthetics, like interestingness, is purely subjective. What one may find extremely attractive, another may not. I do belive this blog is aesthetically pleasing though.

Flickr- My Flickr account includes pictures, thta i believe people who dont assoicate with the poeple in them will find aesthetically pleasing and interesting. For example i have included a couple of pictures, which i find amusing, and would expect others to aswell. These can be found here.These can be found here.

I have also included pictures of landscapes, whihc i belive most others will find aestehtically pleasing. These can be found here.

Other pictures i think others will find interetsing and aesthetcally pleasing

Delicious- My delicious account includes a range of different websites. Like my blogger account, alot of the sites postes are random. An example of an interesting and aesthetically pleasing site i have potsed includes this site (Funny Stuff

I belive all my accounts have aesthtically pleasing qualities, as well as interestingness. I believe the fonts and colours i used are attractive..i picked random colours, whihc i thought worked well. The font i randomly chose also, but i do beleive it wokrs well in this blog.

keeping tarck of visitors

are you using a counter on your blog?

Yes

which one and why?

I picked one randomly

how many hits have you had?

I have had 58 hits in the past few weeks

i only just signed up with sitemeter, so dont know where my visitors are coming from, how long they are staying, who refers them, and how they get there at this stage.

link for sitemeter

Technorati

Technorati only deals with blogs, unlike google which ranks all websites in order of popularity. Technorati allows users to see how popular their blog is. Technorati organises blogs into rankings and allows the user to see their authority. The ranking shows how high the blog is ranked compared with all other blogs organised by technorati. Currently my ranking is 2 097 270. The authority shows number of links and how recent they are. Currently my authority is 1.

technorati homepage

Not aesthetically pleasing

This site doesn't have alot of colour. It is plain and boring.Unlike that of the aesthetically pleasing iste which has alot of colour, which to alot of people would be more aesthetically pleasing. link for not aesthetically pleasng site

Aesthetically pleasing site

I reckon this site is aesthetically pleasing becasue its different to most sites i go to...it is busy and detailed and i find that interesting and aesthetically pleasing. here is the link to this site

Aesthetics

I define aesthetics as what is pleasing and tasteful to the eye. what looks attractive.

here is wikipedia's definition of aesthetics here is wikipedia's definition of aesthetics

What is RSS?

RSS if a format which allows people to be have changing webcontent delivered to them from desired websites.

Why use it?

RSS allows regular uses of a internet sites to always be informed and updated on stuff they want to know about. An example would be someone wanting to know how many people view (or hit) their site.

Visit this site is you want to know more!

XML

XML is a mechanism which identifies structures in documents, also known as a markup language. Here is a link which will allow you to find more information about XML.

Technorati

I now have a technorati account here is the link Technorati Profile

Google reader

I chose to use google reader for no particular reason. i have never used an rss feed before so i didn't know which one would be better, just picked whatever.

click here to go to google reader

Work in this subject

The subject has been quite challenging for me. I have only just started to get the hang of the Blogger site fully. At first I didn’t understand what a blog actually was. I had a bit of an idea but wasn’t positive. I didn’t know blogs and posts were two different things. I used the blogger account to express thoughts on a number of different things. At first I had no idea what to write about so just went with the idea of flickr, and delicious and then movies. As I got used to the blogspot I became more confident and started researching the net to find interesting topics to write about. I have a fascination with natural disasters, so I wrote quite a bit about different ones. I have also written about artists I admire. These include Missy Higgins and Adam Sandler. This blog is really just full of random things, but it’s good to be able to express my thoughts on them.

Flickr has been very useful for me. I have used flickr to upload photos not only for this assignment but for leisure also. My friend from home and I now use flickr to show each other photos. I’ve uploaded a few different types of photos. There are a few landscape ones, animal ones and some which have been the result of mucking around on PhotoBooth on my computer.

The delicious account has been a useful tool to me. I often use delicious to look up things, for example natural disasters. I find it interesting to look at other peoples bookmarks aswell. I have bookmarked sites, which I find useful and some which I just find interesting. Examples of sites I have bookmarked, which I find interesting are the ones about natural disasters. Delicious has allowed me to quickly access these sites.

I beleive each of these accounts show a level of "interestingness". Not everyone will agree that they are interesing, but for those who are as fascinated as i am about natural disasters, are a fan of Missy Higgins, enojy looking at photos of cool landscapes will find my accounts interesting.

"interestingness"

Flickr

Well i created the flickr account this morning before i came to class. It was good because i could use my own pics. This computer has been giving me a bit of trouble...trying to posts comments on the meta blog but i think its all good now. I like flickr, its easy to use. I'll try and upload photos regularly! :)

Here is the link to my account!