Week 2 - Blogs

Afternoon all,

Our Lecture this week was all about Blogs by Nathan McGuinnes, another member of Ice Lab. Although i already knew a bit about Blogs, icertainly didn't realise how popular they were. I also learnt about RSS Feeds. Speaking as someone that views a few diferrent blogs daily, it certainly saves a lot of time being able to scroll down one page to see which ones have been updated. I use Google Reader as a platform to check all my RSS feeds. I was apprehensive at first about writing my own blog, because i wasn't sure if i'd run out of things to say and the fact that several people might read it, but being able to post a few things i'm interested in has made it a bit easier.

This week we had our first Tutorial for Networked Media Production. Our tutor Max (who is the third person from Ice Lab) basically showed us a bunch of really cool Internet sites and we shared sites that we were interested in. We also focused on blogs. It was interesting that most, if not all the people in the tutorial were regular users of Facebook and a lot of people had Blogs. I'm a very regular Facebook user and i read several different blogs but this is my first ever Blog and although it's i'm used to it now, i didn't know what to expect.

I'm a regular viewer of Digg.com, but i also check out a few different sites on a daily basis including: College Humour which is this great American production company that started off on YouTube and daily posts skits and a few other things they find funny.

Trip Advisor is a great blog that people can post Travel advice and stories from around the world. I found it really useful when i travelled around Europe and their forums are really helpful too. I like to keep up to date with what's happening in the U.K. as i lived their briefly and i have friends over there, so i like The Guardian website as it's probably one of the more credible newspapers in the U.K. I also view the Sydney Morning Herald website on a daily basis.

Since today, i've picked up a few others from the Lecture and Tutorial. One of them that i'll be checking daily from now on is Gizmodo. It's a great Aussie Gadget guide with plenty of cool Gadget news as well as news, videos and pictures. My opinions of Blogs has changed over the past few days because although i used to regularly check various blogs, i've certainly been discovering several other cool ones.

-Sean