Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 13

This week was once again spent at home, with more done in the way of paperwork as the project enters its final week. I have almost finished my critical evaluation and am about to start work on my marketing plan. As the project concludes, I ended up being one of the top posters on the site, alongside Joe, Sam, and Ken. I'm quite happy with the amount of posts that we've managed to get up on the site in the last few weeks but still fell as if more could have been done as a group to make things more cohesive looking.

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 12

This week I again stayed at home but I did get on with work, with thoughts firmly on the end of the project. I started to edit my last few posts based on the critique that Simon has given me for the last few weeks. By the end of this week I hope to have my critical evaluation and marketing plan completed (or near completed since there might be things to add in the final week of the project but I doubt it) and then spend the whole of next week fine-tuning what I have written and making sure that it is ready for assessement.

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 11

Today I got more feedback from Simon. I now plan to use all the feedback I have gathered so far and use it to modify all the posts that I've done for the site. I also tried to help Paul in setting up the website on its proper domain name (www.futuristically.net) and, after a long and a hard slog, we managed to get the job nearly done, with the exception of sorting out the fonts at the point when I left. Once everything is sorted out, this will be where all of our postings will go to.

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 10

Today I couldn't make it into university so I did some more work on the site from home. The article I posted from home was a news story regarding Twitter's plans to launch paid-for business accounts.

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 9

Yesterday was a basic workshop day with five of us showing up. I managed to get two posts done during the day, since I missed out a day the previous week. I did an opinion feature about Channel 4's 3D Week (it was an opinion because I wanted to differentiate it slightly from my film 3D feature a few weeks back) and a news story about DVDs made of stone. We also had Karl Schneider come into uni from Reed Business to give a talk and Q&A about publishing on the web. It gave me some interesting opinions about the future of online journalism and a few things from that stuck out ('there are no set rules' and 'interactivity is key' being a couple of them).

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 8

Today was a basic workshop day with four of us turning up. I just did the one feature again, though this time it was a response to a news story written the previous week about the Somerton blogger who eventually got some of his councillors to resign. After the critical analysis of the week before, I deliberately wrote a very cautious piece and a more structured one. I think that this was for the better as it is one of the best features I've done for the site so far. I plan to continue doing news stories throughout the week (just like the week before).

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 7

Yesterday we all received a critical mauling from Simon that, whilst ruthless, was needed for all of us I felt. I think I had gotten a little too complacent and a little too lazy in my writing and I was showed up yesterday. I've decided to take the two criticised articles off the site and will maybe re-write them at a future point in the project. All of us got criticised because we all happened to be in yesterday one bar one person. If there was one thing that was learnt this week, it was that feedback is our friend, no matter how unrelenting it can be.