Process
For the second mission I decided to do blogging with the intention of learning more about this common but not entirely 'popular' medium of internet content. We set out to both create and manage blogs within the time-frame of the mission while also learning about blogging's long history and culture.
It was difficult to figure out the logistics of dividing the project up between the three members of the group and we had several ideas such as whether each person should cover a separate aspect of blogging, creating a single blog which we could add to as a collective or each member creating and managing their own blog with each person covering their own blogging style/genre/topic.
In the end we decided to choose the latter idea and we each decided on a separate blogging platform as to expand our knowledge on different blogging platforms and to explore and experiment with each blogging platform to find their limits and restrictions and gain more intricate knowledge of how each platform functions.
The project began with each of us researching blogging platforms to allow us to choose platforms which both functioned well for each of our intended tasks and also differed enough from each other that we could compare and contrast them. Although it was not the central focus of our mission we felt that it would be essential to research the history of blogging to gain a better understanding of it's purpose and culture.
We each then began to personally research blog exposure as to attempt to fully immerse ourselves within blogging culture in an attempt to undertake the task of blogging as professionally as possible. Unfortunately it didn't seem feasible to manage the blog to that high of a standard within the time frame of the mission so we resigned to just critiquing each-others' blogs. During this process we learned about RSS and Aggregators.
In the end we decided to choose the latter idea and we each decided on a separate blogging platform as to expand our knowledge on different blogging platforms and to explore and experiment with each blogging platform to find their limits and restrictions and gain more intricate knowledge of how each platform functions.
The project began with each of us researching blogging platforms to allow us to choose platforms which both functioned well for each of our intended tasks and also differed enough from each other that we could compare and contrast them. Although it was not the central focus of our mission we felt that it would be essential to research the history of blogging to gain a better understanding of it's purpose and culture.
We each then began to personally research blog exposure as to attempt to fully immerse ourselves within blogging culture in an attempt to undertake the task of blogging as professionally as possible. Unfortunately it didn't seem feasible to manage the blog to that high of a standard within the time frame of the mission so we resigned to just critiquing each-others' blogs. During this process we learned about RSS and Aggregators.
We also discussed integrating Google Analytics into our blogs but the process proved too complicated and the system itself didn't really fit the purpose of the relatively short mission so we resigned not to use it.
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