MPI104 Assessment #2

Well, its nearing the end of the term, and its time to write another assessment blog.
So im going to start off by talking about the aesthetics of my blogspot, which is the site you are viewing now. :-)
I originally had a black background, and the default template of 'Minima Dark', but due to its utter boringness I customized my blog. The header that you see, entitled "Pams Jibberish" is made by me in photoshop, all the pictures and drawings etc are all my original artworks and sketches. To get the sizing right, i took a screen shot of my site and cut around the border so i had a canvas the right size for my header :-) After i made my header i changed the background and font colours to match it, I think overall my blog looks nice and professional, and clean. Which i think is important for any website. It gives it a more wecoming feeling and hence improves its interestingness.
Throughout my blogs i try to keep a consistant amount of links and pictures and little clicky bits to excite and entice the readers of my blog. That being said, You may have noticed the large date gab between posts, between the picture of my nephew and my pictures on aesthetics. I have a very good explanation for this. Animation. It really is a very hard subject to do and maintain attention on all other subjects. And just to take every opportunity: If you want to veiw what i have actually been working on, Click here
I have included a counter on my blog, which was there last assessment, i have a variety of links down the side such as Fav Music News and Animation News, also an RSS feed down the bottom of my delicious links.
For all of my accounts, Flickr, Delicious and Technorati (Rank: 343249) I have tried to make them as interesting as possible. I have a range of images uploaded to my flickr account, and ive gradually been adding them, which im quite happy about, i have over 30 images which is the minimum amount needed for ths assessment. My Delicious account has 3 pages of links, which is also the right amount! (and i havnt even had to add any extra today!). And My technorati has the Multimedia Arts Metablog added to my favourites which is what i needed :-)
For the sake of interestingness (although i dont know how interesting i can be) I have included a snap shot of me as im currently writing this blog! I'm in bed on my new laptop, wearing my dressing gown and hat for i am freezing cold! And it was a good way to test the inbuilt camera on my lappy! hehehe.
Anyway, back to writing a blog about passing(hopefully) this subject.
I've fixed my webcounter up, ive had a few errors with it... as stated previously.
OKay...so I've talked about my 3 accounts (flickr, delicious, and technorati) and I've also spoken about the aesthetics of my blog. I think that its all said, and overwith, so I'll end this blog!
Wish Me Luck!

Assessment#1 Blog Post

Well, Its time to hand up my Mpi104 assessment one! Oh gnoes!!
I have created an Online Identity for this subject, through Flickr, De.licio.us and this blogspot site.

I’ve worked through the checklist and I think that I’ve got a lot of it completed. I've tried to make all these accounts as interesting as possible, i've played with the colours, fonts, i've added pictures and links and made it all quite busy.
There are a few things which I don’t think that I’ve done- perhaps I have, and its just worded in a way that I don’t understand it on the checklist. I havn’t heard anything about this “technorati” that is on the blogger checklist. I did have a counter working, but it seems to have gone on holidays- I should fix that.
In del.icio.us, I’m not sure what ‘subscribing to tags’ is…. But I have been using tags. In my del.icio.us account I have created a network, I have added friends from Mpi104 to my network, I have bookmarked both my flickr and my blogspot and also my myspace. I have also included the link roll at the bottom of my blog, and have shown others how to do this also, all my appropriate links are tagged mpi104-2007.
I have been a little lazy with my flickr account, though I think I have good reason as to why- I don’t have my old computer and I don’t have a camera, as mentioned in my blogs previously…the fire took care of that.
I believe I have done all that is required of me by flickr actually… considering I left quite a lot of it til the last minute. I must apologise for my lack of images, these are the few I could find on what was left, and I am only on dialup speed and it was taking foreverrrrrr!! And I do want to go to bed at some stage during the early morning. I havnt linked all my images with the ‘mpi104-2007’ tag, I only tagged relevant images.

I have left comments on the metablog about my flickr and del.icio.us accounts, and left the links to posts also.

All of my profiles should be up to date and have display pictures. I have tried to keep my user names the same throughout these accounts, and the name I have chosen is “Pamz0r”. That is my nerdy nickname :-P it is actually based upon leet.. or “1337” as those in the know would call it.

I quite enjoy this subject, although I can see now why I should have kept it up to date all along. I hope what I have done is sufficient, and I hope Joh will find it in his heart to give me a good mark :-D