Last Post for Semester - Networked Media Production Week 15

Each post throughout the semester, of course, focused primarily on what we learned in the lectures, and any information gathered from our tutorials. The first few posts introduce semantic markup language eg. html, css etc and progress into API's, mashups, Web 2.0, multiplicity and eventually into Datavisualisation. Some of the topics that I found to be most interesting was the concept of tagclouds, as well as looking into the evolution from taxonomy to folksonomy. Ontology and Predication was another topic that I found to be rather interesting. I couldn't find my views for each post, after reading a few other blogs it turns out that you have to sign up to Google Analytics and include its javascript into your websites html, which keeps track of these statistics, unfortunately I didn't find this out until now. However after reading other people's final blog posts, there are similarities between each post, how views are not significantly high. What I feel would have maybe increased incoming traffic to these blogs would be to change the blog requirements. Having a minimum of two posts per week instead of one. You have your one post that discusses what you learned in that week, and the other post can be based on whatever you like,(or morph them into one big post) this would be a good way to share feelings and thoughts and get an insight into different personalities. So when a visitor to one of these blogs reads some posts that they find amusing, they get to know the author a little better, could possibly become attached and spread the word to friends or colleagues, while at the same time consuming information learned in each week. A big trend that I found to be pretty important was the different interests of other students, how the more they elaborated on a certain post shows which topics they are more interested in, and the topics that I found to be most interesting each week, I tended to elaborate more within my blog, these trends are a great example of Networked Media. How different people express and consume information in different ways that fosters into a networked learning environment.

I nominate these three posts for assessment -

week 4

week 6

week 9