Exegesis - WEB101 Web Communications

I've had experience previously in creating a web presence through my own website but I saw this assignment as an opportunity in which I can try some formats that I don't tend to use. My decision for using this blog as my central node was made after weighing up the options based on comparisons with features on different other Web 2.0 formats. I needed a format where I could place a mid to large sized body of text and the blog was the best format for that compared to Twitter which restricts the amount of text. I also wanted the older posts to be archived so readers would have the ability to search previous posts. After reading Rettberg, specifically the section entitled Technology for Distributed Communities (Rettberg 2008, 65) the usage of a blog was cemented .

I knew that I wanted my blog to based on the films that I watched during the duration of the assignment as I felt I’d be interested in seeing which films other people watched and why. I then made a list of Web 2.0 formats that could accompany my blog and enhance the blog I was creating. As it was film based I thought each post could be accompanied by the films trailer and the perfect Web 2.0 website for video is YouTube. On YouTube I could create a profile that listed the trailer for each film I watched as a favourite so any one who visited the YouTube profile would get a visual account of the films I’d watched. This favourites list also served as a base point in which I could get the relevant embed information for me to use on each blog post.

After working through Module 2 of Web101 Web Communications I developed a better understanding of Metadata and how tagging can assist in allowing others to access blogs, news and information easier. I chose Delicious as my next node as I would be able to create tags of my2011infilm which was the title of this blog and also give each link posted tags relating to the film written about or even in some cases actors or directors. The more tags the more chance of others coming across the blog.

The final node chosen was Twitter. I know that sometimes people don’t want to read an article, they want just a quick update in which they can then make a decision which posting they would like to read. Also the restrictive nature of Twitter coupled with its ease of use on mobile devices allowed me to instantly post the film being watched wherever I was watching without having to make time to sit down and write about it.
I’ve certainly enjoyed operating it all and once the assignment has been marked I feel I might continue using the Twitter account and see how that goes.

References

Rettberg, J. (2008), Blogs, Communities and Networks in Blogging. Retrieved from Curtin E-Reserve http://eres.lis.curtin.edu.au/cgi-bin/gw?url=dc60263770 (Retrieved 02/02/11)