During the sixteen weeks of posting I tried to keep content very broad, coverng all aspects of networked media production. I took careful measures to ensure all posts reflected some personal insight relating to the issue at hand. I avoided annotating information that had already been established, such as lecture notes and wikie's. Instead I used these sources among others for ideas as posts, once I had some direction I would further research a topic so that I could present a non-bias opinion/angle on that particular subject. I also tried to avoid using information from one primary source such as wikipedia, I wanted to demonstrate an overall understanding that can only be achieved by looking at different sources, i.e bigger picture.
Audience
My primary audience are people who are interested in network media practices. Particularly people studying/working in that field. I found that posting my opinion of other colleges posts such as the post Media Royals, sparked interesting controversial debate that resulted in additional posts in resolving that issue. Not only is this interesting for the reader but it also encourage me to further investigate my own understanding of network media practices.
Connectivity
Other all my Blog did not receive much traffic despite using a range of web advertisement services, one of which being technorati. I could have focused more on following other colleges and reflecting on their content instead of basing my posts around the latest media issues, or even balancing the two. The most popular posts was content that challenged/contradicted an opinion of a college, this is reflected in the number comments for a particular post. Other traffic sources include spam from people promoting their services through comments.
Web Services
Blogspot did provide a number of useful services that helped maintain, enhance and assist in writing posts. The Blog Archive located on the top right of the page neatly arranged posts in chronological order. This helps viewers to navigate the blog's infrastructure, selecting particular posts that is of interest. Further more, the blog role just below the blog archive is a great feature that allowed me to add relevant links to other blogs that I found interesting. What I thought was neat, is that Blogspot provided a service that allowed other bloggers to follow me, likewise I could follow them. Lastly Blogspot provided a feature that allowed me to past HTML/Java-Script into a gadget that I could then display in my side bare. In a post called PRESENTATION, I touched on data visualisation and used a word clowd generating web service provided by http://www.wordle.net/create to generate the underlying HTML code for the discussion of that post.
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