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    The March 30th release of the Federal Government's Final Report from the Convergence Review has ruffled not just a few feathers amongst the media moguls but I'd have to say the entire plume. From The Australian to The Herald Sun, commentators around the country have contributed their two cents worth focusing mainly on the negative effects...

  • Australian Films To Look Out For In 2014

    2014 was recently described by Inside Film as shaping up to be "one of the strongest years for Australian films." In anticipation of this, and considering my lack of posts recently, I thought I would provide you all with a few more reasons as to why this claim is valid made with summaries of the films mentioned and their accompanying trailers....

  • Why the Australian government won't win the war on online piracy and copyright infringement.

    Recent reports came out today speculating on the impact that Attorney General George Brandis' latest anti-piracy proposal will have on the Australian public who were recently deemed by Mumbrella to be "at the top of the world piracy ladder." Here are my reasons why the proposal, and subsequent proposals to fight those who elicit online piracy, will fail.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

FINISHED!!!!

1:38 PM – by Unknown 0
celebrationYes ladies and gentlemen it is that time of the year when I can safely say with confidence that ALL my assignments for the year are officially OOOOOVVVVVEEEEERRRRRRR!!!!! OK, so now I've gotten that out of my system, I thought I would just leave you all with this final goodbye.

As you all know, this blog was a part of our Networked Media curriculum and in order to pass, well at least to not fail, we had to blog between 3 - 5 posts per week. Unfortunately, I don't believe that I managed to produce THAT many posts but I still think I learnt many valuable lessons about blogging and here are my top three.

1. Links are essential. I realised this pretty early on as there was so much emphasis placed on their importance by Seth and the other guest lecturers we had, as well as the Unviersity lecturers we watched in the lectures from T.E.D. The great thing about links though is that you do half the work! If you have an idea, all you need to do is make a link to another page and your reader can just get all the information they need from somebody else who has done all the research. Its brilliant! Don't know why I didn't think of it sooner.
2. Consistency is key. Now, whilst I've already admitted that I was not the most diligent of bloggers, I still claim that from my posts, you can get a sense of consistency. I think this means, in a semi-clichéd way, that I found my voice. All my blogs reflect my individual, quirky sense of humour (which some of you may have found funny. If not, you know where the door is...) as well as presenting the same ideological viewpoints over and over for example, my opinions on the environment.
3. IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE LONG!!! Ok, so I know I only really learnt this lesson at the END of the semester but it really took me a long to time to figure this one out - People don't actually like reading blogs that are massively long! Anything more than 20 lines automatically gets stored in the "this is an essay and therefore I CBF reading it" compartment of young people's brains. Therefore, it makes sense to make them shorter so that more people will read them. It also means I have to be more concise with my wording. Also images help with making things a bit more interesting and, in the words of Alana Ward, because they look "pretty".

So there you have it folks. My little lessons from this year on blogging so far. Be sure to stay tuned next year or if I really feel up to it, you may here from me over the summer. Till then, don't worry. Be happy!
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