Wednesday, June 13, 2007
i think i might just like all this after all
At the start of the year i had no idea what a blog even was. But I'm glad i learnt all about it and other clever things like links, RSS feeds, technorati and what not. I really enjoy putting photo's on flickr and checking out every one elses happy snaps and creative pictures. I've even used up my the limits of my free account.. MYflickr . I joined a few groups, some for photography and designs, music festivals and I was even thinking of getting a tattoo so joined the group 'tattoos on females' for some inspiration.
Del.icio.us turned out to be a really useful site as well. At the start of the year i decided i wanted to write down all the websites i came across which i liked but having them all bookmarked in one place where i won't lose them makes it so much easier. Using it to record sites I've used for my uni work as well as other interesting things I find along the way is really cool.
I have also experimented with the templates, fonts, colours. I think there is a good balance between form, content and function. I guess I thought about what I liked when visiting other websites and tried to incorporate these ideas into my own. I tried to incorporate pictures in my posts whenever I could and tried not to make my posts too long with too much jargon. So when writing definitions on things like HTML and RSS feed I used the description i understood the best so that anyone else who gets confused as easily as me might also eventually understand.
I want my page to be easily read and easy to follow. I kept my backgrounds plain because I find it hard to read text over a picture. I listened to Jo's advice and made sure i didn't do anything silly like make a page of red and green with nothing inbetween but stuck to colours that i think are aesthetically pleasing together. But i guess its kind of like interestingness and everyone is different in what they think looks good. Which kind of makes me think how can one person mark everyones work on how good it looks if everyone thinks differently on what they like. But then we are taught rules on things like colours, typography, sizes and spacing so perhaps thats how.
Del.icio.us turned out to be a really useful site as well. At the start of the year i decided i wanted to write down all the websites i came across which i liked but having them all bookmarked in one place where i won't lose them makes it so much easier. Using it to record sites I've used for my uni work as well as other interesting things I find along the way is really cool.
I have also experimented with the templates, fonts, colours. I think there is a good balance between form, content and function. I guess I thought about what I liked when visiting other websites and tried to incorporate these ideas into my own. I tried to incorporate pictures in my posts whenever I could and tried not to make my posts too long with too much jargon. So when writing definitions on things like HTML and RSS feed I used the description i understood the best so that anyone else who gets confused as easily as me might also eventually understand.
I want my page to be easily read and easy to follow. I kept my backgrounds plain because I find it hard to read text over a picture. I listened to Jo's advice and made sure i didn't do anything silly like make a page of red and green with nothing inbetween but stuck to colours that i think are aesthetically pleasing together. But i guess its kind of like interestingness and everyone is different in what they think looks good. Which kind of makes me think how can one person mark everyones work on how good it looks if everyone thinks differently on what they like. But then we are taught rules on things like colours, typography, sizes and spacing so perhaps thats how.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
South Ball
I've run out of space on Flickr... so here are a couple of pictures from South Ball the other night. I'll put the rest on
MySpace
Saturday, June 2, 2007
21st Birthday Parties
There have been lots of 21sts on the past couple of months. I've posted lots of photos on flickr that I've taken for them, the latest is Joes Risky Party take a look..
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
StatCounter
I'm using StatCounter to see how many visitors i've had to my site. It is up to 87, and i think quite a few of these are from me visiting my own blog and the main day it is visited is Thursday, (when the workshop is on). Most people get to my site through other bogspots and del.icio.us, and my highest visitor length is from 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
I like knowing how many visitors my blog has. using the StatCounter is a great tool to find out whether my site is successful or not. Its useful to know which pages are more popular. If some pages are being overlooked it probably means i need to improve or make the navigation to those pages more obvious. Or entice my visitors to find out more about these pages.
I like knowing how many visitors my blog has. using the StatCounter is a great tool to find out whether my site is successful or not. Its useful to know which pages are more popular. If some pages are being overlooked it probably means i need to improve or make the navigation to those pages more obvious. Or entice my visitors to find out more about these pages.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
what is technorati anyway?
The technorato website says:
Currently tracking 82.7 million blogs
Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”
But it all started with blogs. Blogs are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.
Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.
On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. We rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so we monitor these live communities and the conversations they foster.
The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.
Technorati. Who's saying what. Right now.
Another good answer to this question is right here
Currently tracking 82.7 million blogs
Technorati is the recognized authority on what's happening on the World Live Web, right now. The Live Web is the dynamic and always-updating portion of the Web. We search, surface, and organize blogs and the other forms of independent, user-generated content (photos, videos, voting, etc.) increasingly referred to as “citizen media.”
But it all started with blogs. Blogs are influential, personal, or both, and they reflect as many topics and opinions as there are people writing them.
Blogs are powerful because they allow millions of people to easily publish and share their ideas, and millions more to read and respond. They engage the writer and reader in an open conversation, and are shifting the Internet paradigm as we know it.
On the World Live Web, bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. We rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and so we monitor these live communities and the conversations they foster.
The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates a second.
Technorati. Who's saying what. Right now.
Another good answer to this question is right here
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Live Earth Concert
Well didn't end up getting any tickets to Spelndour In The Grass. They had the worst ticket selling system ever!
So anyone else who missed out there is another option to listen to some live music...
Live Earth Australia Concert - 7-continent, 24-hour Live Earth concerts to be held on 7/7/07.
The Australian concert will be staged at Aussie Stadium in Sydney.
Tickets for the show go on sale in Australia Friday, May 18 at 9.00 a.m. (AEST)
The global concert will begin in Sydney and continue across all 7 continents with concerts in Tokyo, Shanghai, Johannesburg, London, and Rio de Janeiro before concluding at the Giants Stadium in New Jersey.
The lineup is no where near as good as Splendour but still sounds ok:
Blue King Brown
Crowded House
Eskimo Joe
Ghostwriters
Jack Johnson
John Butler Trio
Missy Higgins
Paul Kelly
Sneaky Sound System
Toni Collette & The Finish
Wolfmother
Live Earth Blog
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