Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 2

This week, all of us bar one met up with Simon for the first time to talk a bit more about roles on the site and he showed us the design that we ultimately decided to use. The design makes the site look less like a blog and more like a proper website, with enough options to customise the site (via widgets, CSS, etc.) and make it look less like a default template. I am in charge of the Entertainment section of the website, as well as looking after the site's eventual Twitter account.

Online Journalism 3rd Year Group Project - Week 1

For the third year group project, it was decided that all eight of us doing online journalism would collaborate with each other on one big website instead of breaking up into smaller groups. We spent an entire day thinking up of an interesting idea for the site but eventually we decided upon the future as a topic. It would be a news/features site with articles about things that might happen in the future, which would be like a Tomorrow's World kind of concept. Because the idea took a whole day to uncover, this was all that we managed to do.

Online Semester 3 - Week 12

The entire lesson was spent finishing off all our work. This included doing the final bits of my critical evaluation and fine-tuning my individual project. In the week since I last went to lesson I had changed my website design as I wasn't particular happy with the way it was laid out.

Online Semester 3 - Week 11

In this lesson only me and Paul turned up. Mike was also in the university but was focusing on stuff for the university newspaper, which was understandable. I started to write some content for my individual site. Over the holidays I decided to do a website called Sinful Listening, a guilty pleasures type of website but with music. I had registered the Wordpress domain name and had sorted out some basic blog configurations including a template that I wanted to use.

I also carried on with my critical evaluation, which I started working on throughout the Easter holidays.

Online Semester 3 - Week 10

In the final lesson before Easter, me, Mike and Paul turned up to the lesson. We researched more ideas for Techmole and agreed to record another podcast tonight. After the failed attempt last time we decided to make the new attempt more concise and more planned. I also started thinking about my individual project and, whilst I know that I want to do a music based website, I'm still trying to pinpoint a specific subject.

Online Semester 3 - Week 9

Today, only me and Mike turned up to class in another low turnout. Since the last lesson me, Mike and Ken have added more posts to the Techmole site and we've started to receieve pingbacks (websites linking to us). My contribution to the website is now at two news posts and two features.

I would have prefered to have more people in as we could discuss how we could move the website forward and perhaps talk about podcasting but because of the low turnout that hasn't been an option. I'm hoping that in the final week before Easter everyone turns up so we can discuss how we can continue to maintain the website over Easter. 

Online Semester 3 - Week 8

All five of us turned up this week. Ken said to me that our pilot podcast (which me, him and Paul did last week through Skype and was deemed the 'molecast' by Paul) wasn't good enough to be used and said that we needed to do a better one with more structure to it, kind of like Giant Bomb's podcast.

The main issue was with Jack (again). He decided to sit away from the group and wanted to work on his video content. He had already given in a video review but it had a lot of swearing and was unsuitable. Me, Ken and Mike then had an argument with Jack - we were saying that he took criticism too seriously and that he should pull his weight, whilst Jack was suggesting that we did no work, even though he was wrong.

He then threw a dictionary at a Mac computer.