wk 13 - judgement day

well it looks like its the end of my blogging days. i have written all i can and done all i can for this multimedia course and now it looks like its up to the gods to judge whether or not my work passes.

and in this last post im supposed to recap on what ive learnt throughout the course so far, well altogether i have learnt many things. from the start with the introduction of blogger i was able to be able to learn to type out my thoughts to be read by the general community, at first it felt weird and strange but after a few times it slowly became commonplace and i got used to it pretty quickly. from there i was then able to learn how to be able to quickly be a codemonkey and type out the quicklinks through the internet jargon i.e a> href"www."...

then as we progressed through the course i was then taught how to use css and best of all tamper with my template to have it have the superman background it has now XD.

i learnt to use such programs such as del.icio.us , technorati and flickr which have all helped me develop a web based community where i upload items or i share what i find are interesting with my web community. with del.icio.us which focused on internet web sites bookmarking i was able to encounter a variety of different websites and be suggested what websites would be good from me from the community while also sharing what i found interesting and social bookmarking my favourite websites in hope that they too will bookmark it.

flickr was a fun website where i uploaded photoes which i found interesting or gorgeous that i found off other websites or if i took some nice photoes and wish for them to be commented and enjoyed

an technorati another web based community focused on the sharing of blogs, technorati showed me what it took to make a successful blog an how blogs become popular by viewing what the top 100 blogs were about.

i later learned about rss feeds and by far the most interesting was the use of ftp! which had then allowed for my world to be opened up since i had already learnt of the basics from all that ive learnt throughout the term i was able to then put all this knowledge together to be able to haphazardly put together my very own first website!

my biggest and best achievement (after superman), starting a webpage from scratch an then having to upload it online to the right server required effort but was well worth the challenge. so pretty much the biggest thing ive learnt is to build a webpage from scratch including the aesthetic looks as to make it apear interesting and fun to view.

so altogether throughout this course ive learnt many new things an were able to use websites and programs which i never would have found a use for, learning such diversity has led me to be able to come out of this course with a full head of knowledge an a greater understanding of the internet.

but all in all, this is my final post and this is most definitely be a quick and short goodbye

tonsilitis

this is being the night before the asessment is due because ive been way too sick throughout the week to do this, (im still sick now), turns out i have tonsilitis which makes my tonsils the size of a fist enclosed by my mouth.

but right now im working on the finishing touches of my athene website and hopefully everything turns out well!

rss and counters

counters are pretty much counting items which count the number of times ure webpage gets visited, i guess to use it would give you a strong indication how successful and popular your webpage would be. other types of web analysis tools are clicky, crazyegg where both help to analyze viewers criticism

an then movin onto rss is a web feed in which updated content such as news feeds can be easily updated.

well, gtg! will add more later! cya!

stress time!

its gettin closer an closer to assesment and exam date an the real crappy thing is that this weekend was the weekend my immune system decided to screw me over and give me the nastiest flu ever.

gettin hot an cold fevers and making me feel sore all over.

but i got to get started on finishin up my assesment items

onoz...

well hopefully all goes well!

technorati

wikipedia calls technorati a "Internet search engine for searching blogs" however it also allows for you to manage blogs that u find are interesting. like for example you could favourite a many different blogs and the moment you log onto technorati itll be able to show u the updates made to those blogs an given in a short paragraph to show you what the blog has written. this makes it easier to siphon through to the more interesting aspects and to see if there is anything of interest. technorati manages the blogs keeping your favourites and also showing you what is popular at this time an moment. so pretty much technorati is a community based blog organiser similar to that of del.icio.us for webpages and flickr for photoes.

my technorati rank and technorati authority at the moment is kind of embarassing, its weak.

so at this moment my technorati rank is 3,366,655 which isnt too bad...

and my authority is 2.

technorati authority relies on how interesting your contents of your blog is an how many other blogs link to your blog. do you follow? so the more ppl that links or leads to your own blog the higher the authority you have!

technorati rank is about how far you are away from being the number one blog in the world! rank and authority are linked, the more authority the smaller the rank number you'll become.

well looking at the top 100 blogs, i think my favourite would be http://www.lifehacker.com.au/

which is all about gadgets and gizmos an keepin upto date an all that jazz. its really interesting in terms of all the things it teaches you. an instead of focusing on aesthetic appearance it instead focuses on the content providing a very intriguing and useful blog

well thats all folks!

ftp

ftp standing for file transfer protocol which is practically the most simple way and also the most secure way to transfer files over the internet.

the most positive aspect of ftp is that you use ftp everyday in terms of downloading anything off the net. such as music, videos, for online gaming. all of these use ftp. its ease of use allows for amateurs and proffessionals to use it and be able to create webpages.

however there are tons of negatives about ftp, ftp doesnt work too well if there are firewalls placed. thus if the firewalls are placed ports need to be forwarded and configurations need to be in order for the transfers to occur. the firewalls also make it hard to filter active mode ftp traffic on the client side, and is a high latency protocol because of the large number of commands needed to initiate a transfer. there is also no intergrity check so if the file is corrupted the client would not be able to know and often the passwords and file contents are sent in clear text which are then able to be intercepted by eavesdroppers.

some of these risks can be minamilised with third party external softwares, with use of third party software the intergrity of a file could be checked, ports that need forwarding will need to be manually forwarded but luckily there are many sites on the internet which help with port forwarding.

but all in all ftp is a useful way which the positives far outweigh the negatives in terms of the easy transfer of information from across the globe can be easily managed!

wk 8 - assessment time

Hi there

well to recap on what i have done over the past couple of months within the MPI104 class.

first off i have made seven posts, Seven! that's right. i am now a blog fanatic and probably my most favourite one would be about HARVEY BIRDMAN! which includes photos and a youtube video XD

i have worked quite extensively for the past couple of weeks tweaking the aesthetics of this blog an finally have been able to change the template entirely to have a superman background, i also changed the fonts and the font colours of various titles.

in terms of comments it doesn't get anymore interesting then "man that's cool" or "dude show me!" but if u really want here's a blog comment i made on tom's blog.

tags! i have used a large number of different tags hoping that it would draw someone other then our class mates to my blog but to no avail. and here they are


mpi 104 (3) blog (2) community (2) photo (2) CSS (1) advantages (1) at (1) attorney (1) birdman (1) change (1) del.icio.us (1) flickr (1) funny (1) graphically (1) harvey (1) hero (1) humour (1) law (1) layout (1) netvouz (1) new (1) picture (1) sharing (1) simpy (1) start (1) stimulating (1) superhero (1) superman (1) tag (1) taggly (1) templates (1)

the numerous different tags i used to try to draw people to my blog.

other then that i have worked extensively on the aesthetic look of my blog, also with helping others improve their blog and trying to make my blog as interesting as possible!

on del.icio.us

i have bookmarked 41 different pages, when im on the net i just love googling and when i found something of interest i just tagged it with del.icio.us. all these links interest me because i find anything of remote interest to fascinate me from the "how to breakdance" vids to the websites with web games on them.

my three favourite links would be Bruce Campbell official website, Harvey Birdman Fansite , How to mail a brick to junk mailers .

these links interest me firstly with Bruce Campbell being the a great (if not BEST) b movie actor in the entire world and he offers film tips and is always willing to help out amateurs and offers to provide a cameo within any project as long as its substantiated, hes an actor that would go above and beyond for his fans.

the harvey birdman fansite generally because i have taken to becoming a fan of the television show harvey birdman: attorney at law which airs on adultswim, it uses a range of different comedies and is just about a cartoon about a once great superhero who is now working in as a lawyer

and the last link speaks for itself, i just love how-to guides and this would probably be the best one of them all. how to mail a brick to junk mailers.

and finally onto my flickr account, i have about 27 pictures uploaded but intend to upload alot more tonight my brother and i posing , my favourite VPA 104 assignment photo, and a lovely picture of the ever charming mr chris kiss , a friend of mine who i gave a haircut on the worlds shave for a cure day

enjoy yourself