This is my final blog post or as it is called in the unit outline, my reflective "meta" post. I would like to start by explaining I did not really understand what networked media was at the beginning of this course. I now know that it is how the internet works, allows us to interact with others and communicate. This made it hard at the start when we began blogging because I was unsure of what to say and what networked media I should present. After beginning classes and more lectures I had a better understanding.
I chose to write about lectures and information that they taught me. I viewed websites that interested me as they are certain film makers and photographer that I idolize and believe others may also, or now have the opportunity after learning about them. I also continued to update on the progress I was making with the assignments over the course that included Project A, where I built a website and Project B, where I constructed a photographic tour and geotagged each on Flickr. Each of these assignments allowed me to use a variety of media and understand the positives and negatives of certain types such as video uploaders, webpage makers and so on.
The audience I tried to write for where people like me doing the same course who had the same sort of interests. This is why I chose to write what I was using in Projects, interesting sites and positive and negative aspects I have found within networked media.
It is a basic and up to date blog with webpages that I would insist on viewing and information about this course. I have also added some gadgets on the side bar to make it a bit more interesting. One gadget I chose to add was the youtube video bar. In this bar you will find a video called, Strings Day Out, which is an amazing film made by a friend of mine. She made it entirely of photographs that she took and compiled them into a movie. I also added a slideshow of pictures from Flickr with the keyword sunset. This allows a slideshow to continue playing a variety of sunsets taken by all different members of Flickr. These are good examples of networked media on my blog because they are different people and sites that are connected and viewed through my blog.

It is also required to nominate three of my past posts to be assessed. I have chosen Tuesday, September 23's post because it has a clear engagement with, and reflection on, the content of the unit. It also shows an ability to create, customise and integrate networked media forms as it explains that we learnt how to use Text Wrangler in our tutorial. This allows us to customize and create our own webpage.
The second post I am going to nominate is Sunday, August 17. This is a small summary of what I have learnt so far in the first 2/3 weeks of the course, reflecting and engaging on the content of the unit.
The third post I nominate is Friday, September 5. I chose this post because it explains how I created Project A, which was creating a website and publishing my work on it. This showed an ability to position my own practice appropriately within the context of networked media and connecting with an audience.

I have just completed Production Project B. I chose, as said in my last post, part 2. I chose to combine geotagged photographs on Flickr using Maps. The photos were taken by my friend Bijou Busse, and edited by me, Casie Louttit. I chose to do a tour on this as Bijou is an amazing surfer and travels around the world for competitions. These photos portray a story from her surfboards point of view, as she takes it everywhere with her. It was also interesting as the photos are placed all over the world making the map/geotagging a little more interesting.
You can find this assignment in my photostream on www.Flickr.com in a set named, Photos by Bijou Busse. The url is http://www.flickr.com/photos/24461528@N08/sets/72157608221711528/ . It is also better to view them in slideshow with the info on, which allows you to read and view the photos full screen. Take a look at the photos and have a read of just a part of Bijou Busse's lifestyle as a professional surfer.

It is now week 14 and nearing the end of university. I have not et finished the assignment but I plan to sit in the computer room all day tomorrow and get as much done as possible. As I explained in my last blog post, I am doing the second option of photography.
I am using Flickr and putting up photos that my mate Bijou Busse has taken and some I have also taken. She is a professional surfer and I will be telling a story from her surfboards point of view. It will mainly be based on the photos but it will have a narrative to connect and explain them. She is currently in Hawaii so hopefully I will also get some beautiful photos from there!
I chose this because the geo-tagging will be more interesting than all based in Australia and the story has a basic structure to it.

I have decided to do the second option for our semester 2, term 2 assignment. I am aiming to take a variety of photographs, from which I can produce a story. I will then add all of these photos into flickr and geotag them. Geotagging is where you attatch the photo to the place it was taken on a map of the world.
I would have liked to do the third option where you make a video about youtube. However, I have a large amount of assignments and preparation for exams needs to start sometime soon so filming and editing a short film is too time consuming for my current work state.
I am buying a new camera this week because my last one broke, so I will begin late this week and update my blog on how it is going.
Cheers

This is a small summary of the sites we checked out in our tutorial today.

Wolfenfickr is a strange site where you can post your photos in what looks like a video game. It has low resolution, which does not make your photos appear as clear as you would like when posting them on the internet for others to view.

Retrivr is a way of finding photos in flickr with certain colours that you are looking for. You draw in a small box which colours you are after and a variety of photos that are similar will appear from all different flickr members.

Notifyr is like an rss feed with updates of flickr.

Twitter has friends

Strawpolls has different polls each day for people to vote on.

Commuter feed has updates people can sms to such as road blocks.

Twistori is similar to wefeelfine.org/ but is related to twitter instead of everyones blogs. It is also more up to date as it is live.

Twittervision is a live version of people comments and photos uploaded to twitter. It shows a large map and the location of where the photo/comments are made. They pop up on the map when they are uploaded. It is a live, up to date map. Check it out its really interesting to watch!!

Unfortunately I ran out of internet credit last week so I could not put up a post so this will be meant for my week 11 post. Last week we looked at an interesting site wefeelfine.org/. This is a very interesting site someone has conjured. which has everyones posts that involve feelings. For example if you have written about yourself being sad and someone looks for someone who is sad your blog will come up.
It is about five hours up to date, making it a very modern up to date site.
Clearly I couldn't do much because I had no credit and had to look on with someone else but it is interesting to check out.

This week we were introduced to text wrangler in our tutorials. Text Wrangler is a strange but interesting form of producing webpages. It is complex without having a tutor telling you everything to do and what it all means. All the signs, letters, symbols and numbers that I don't usually pay attention to on things like updating my myspace or skipping over on the keyboard. I noticed a few little things like:
-what stands for unordered list that are arranged on the webpage in dot points.
-Adding / to the end closes the element.
-what makes a link when typing the link where the dots are. 
-what stands for the main heading.
-fff is white and 000 is black, whilst all other colours vary between these.
Although, I can not type them in because it will arrange this blog post awkwardly due to the codes being used to format webpages.

This is great to learn because when I make a webpage I can do what I want. I don't have to choose a pre-made layout from a free website  maker. It will allow me to be more creative and visually represent my works without being restricted. 

Aurevior