The Mind Of A Young Woman

Individual Project Ideas

This blog is about different ideas I have about my project. If I don't make a clear statements, excuse me. That just means I have a lot of ideas coming to me at once.

Well the project is going to be on hypertext poetry I guess. I want to post my poetry and also receive comments about it like a blog. I wondering if I could set up a particular that's kinda like a wiki. Where people can erase and re write one or two of my poems. I think that's a good idea.

I going have to look at a couple more websites similar to mine, to really have the whole picture... to be continued!!!

Just A Brief Comment

I wish "The Weblog Hanbook", "Hot Text", and "Writing for the Web" were all in one book. Basically, each book was stating the same thing in my opinion. The only reason I wish they were all in one book is because I probably would have save a lot more money paying for one book instead of three. Ha Ha Ha!!!

Weblog

The Weblog Handbook:

This handbook was written by Rebecca Blood. Basically this is a handbook for creating and maintaing an active webblog. It defines what a webblog is. Also, it tells why people have made blogs so popular. When creating your blog you should have an outline in your mind. So you can design your blog the way you want it. Remember your blog is your blog. It should reflect you as the individual that you are. Finding your voice is also mention in this book. All this means is write (type) using your own style so you can stick out from other blogs. Also, you have to find an audience and identify with them so you can keep their attention. There are also tips about what you should avoid online and making sure your recieving your credit for your work. Making a schedule is a great way to stay organize. Updating your blog is a must or you will lose your audience. While working online always protect your privacy is the last and greatest lesson to be learned from this handbook.

Web Writing

Writing for the Web

This text is by Crawford Kilian. Writing for the web is basically giving advice to people who want to write (type) online. This book is sending out a message stating that web sites aren't just about the pretty pictures and cool animations on the site. People are so hook on graphics that they forget about the quality and style of writing. They end up posting worthless crap with pretty colorful backgrounds. Also, graphics and sounds on the websites occupys the surfer's attention and they forget about the article. Kilian is trying to teach the reader how to write on the internet. Not just how to write, but also how to keep your reader's attention. Also, there are tips on writing informational and persuasive text. It also touches bases on developing business websites and exploring the free lance writing using the world wide web.

Hot Text

Hot Text: Web Writing That Works
By Jonathan and Lisa Price was an infomation text. Personally, I like chapter three and the sections provide within it. Chapter three title is "What Will the Web Do to My Text"?. Within this chapter I was introduce to three section. The first section was called "Your Words Are Virtually There". This section was about how people read from a computer screen its hard on the eyes. Many people tend to over look the keywords their looking for in an article or anything other text. The second section was called "Web Text= Content + Interface". In this section it was explaining how text is considered content because it tells the user what the page is about. Text can be also interface for the same reason. The last section in this chapter was titled "Warm, Warmer, Hot". It's explaining that basically that the internet would not be as huge as it is as far as popularity is concern if it wasn't focusing on communications. Without the internet a computer would be consider not as popular as television or the radio. The internet is a communication center.

Viruses, SpyWare, and Security

Sam's presentation about viruses, spyware, and security really helped me. I learned things about viruses that I didn't know. For example, worms which
invade your computer. When worms invade the computer, the worms steal resources to replicate themselves. If your computer is suffering from pop - up syndrome, then your computer is probably infected by worms. By learning this information from Sam's blog, I was able to educate my friend who was having trouble with her computer.

Pundit Blogs and Edu- Blogs

Okay, I heard of a webblogs, but pundit and edu blogs. Come on. Well it's true, Chris had on presentation on theses types of blogs. I learned that pundit blogs deal with politics. As matter a fact if I'm right, I believe Chris mentioned that pundit is refers to a person who has authority. That's a new one on me. These blogs provides easy to use and access which sorts out the facts in politics.

Earlier I mentioned another type of blog which is called edu- blog. Edu- blogs deal with education, duh. Edu meaning education. Chris's blog says this blog's purpose is to aid in education. These blogs are for anyone who wants to communicate about their ideas as far as education goes. I'm probably going to investigate these blogs at a later date.

Anatomy of a Weblog?

An Anatomy of a Weblog? You have to be kidding, right? Wrong. There is a such thing as an anatomy to a weblog. Neha, who I consider one of the experts of the class, told the class about the parts of a weblog. I thought all I had to do was type and post. That's not even half of it. I mentioned posting, Neha say a weblog really couldn't be success with being updated regularly and have links. By the way I have a confession, I don't think my blog will be successful becuase I don't blog as much as I should. Anyway, she compared a weblog to an acedemic paper. Which I agree with her, except you can blog about anything you want in a webblog. With a paper you have to write about the topic the professor assigns. Also, Neha told us about the categories which separate different categories. Commenting is a big thing in blogs. People as well as yourself can post comments on each other's blogs. I learned a lot from Neha's presentation.

Designing Weblogs

I found Val's presentation very helpful. As you can see my blog is very plain. There's no graphics or even color. Just black and white. How was Val's presentation helpful to me if I have a plain blog, you say? Well with her links provide on her blogs, I can change my blog when ever I want to. She show our class how to change the colors of our blogs. To me that's helpful because at that point and time I didn't know how to do that or any other thing that would change my blog. As for my blog, I like it as it is plain black and white.

History of E-mail

After hearing Vanessa's presentation, I got interested in the history. So I explore her blog. I remember Vanessa stating that the first form of email began in 1968. The BBN was hired by the United States Defense Department to create something called the ARPANET which stands for Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. I visited the link, and I find it very interesting. The information is found on the wikipedia. There's another link on her blog where there is more information about ARPANET and also go into other links.

Portfolio Collection

This is a portfolio of my collection of blogs.

Panel Discussions:
1. Viruses, SpyWare, and Security
2. Pundit Blogs and Edu- Blogs
3. Anatomy of a Weblog?
4. Designing Weblogs
5. History of E-mail
6. My Presentation

Reading/ Responding to Text:b>
1. The Weblog Handbook
2. Writing for the Web
3. Hot Text: Web Writing That Works