Counting 1,2,3

I put a counter on my page, from the site called sitemeter. I didn't know what site to go with, so what was reccomended I went with. This is a good thing as so far as you know how many people are coming and visiting your site, how they are getting to your site and where they are going from your site. Well it's only me at the momment, visiting and adding posts to my blog. But other than that, I think it will be interesting in the long run. Hopefully I can put my name out there and get noticed so i can get visitors and lots.

But for my flickr site, the people that I am connected with upload photos all the time, and so I get alot of visitors to my flicker site through them. I also try and send out a working link to my friends to have a look at what happened last weekend.

My del.icio.us site is far from contact. it's not really touched other than my work flow tool. I have not spent that much time in this site as i would like to. but if you would like to visit my del.icio.us siteyou are most welcome.

this post will be updated!

Flickr account

Avalanche
Originally uploaded by Kylie-anne.

This is my Flickr account. I have photos that have been included from my life as fun and interesting. This picture inparticular is related to my study. ART! I majored in Drawing at TAFE in 2005, and so paper has been a big part of my long jorney through art itself. I love the use of negitive space in this image and the use of positive space. Very clever. So to look at more please feel free to be surprised at the wonderful work of these paper artist.

Only great minds can read this

This is weird, but interesting!

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.
Cna yuo raed tihs?
Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can.
I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg.
The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at
Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a
wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the
rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it
whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? Yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt!

Technorati

Technorati is a site which keeps track of all the updates in your site and other sites that you have saved as your favorite. This serves as a great tool so you can see the latest articles from all your friends aswel as other sites you are interested in. And not only that, tecnorati also has a ranking system which compares you to other sites with how many links you have with other users, the more links you have with other users the further up the ranking you go. You also have Authority. Depending on what your ranking is, is depending on the amount of authority you are going to have. The more authority you have, the more likely you will be higher in the ranking list. Technorati uses this method in search engines so it is easier for members and non members to search and locate information. This is different to Google as goggle only searches the sites relating to the words found in the site, such as titles and headings, not necessarily

My ranking is not good: 3,286,017 and I have no Authority. Damn it!!.

Bridal shower parade!

Hannah and Naomi
Originally uploaded by Annie-G2007.

Girls Brigade in Wagga, held a bridal parade for all the mums of the girls that go to GB. This was a fantasic time where the mums' could view the styles of dresses ranging from the 1950's till now. From the elabrate to the simple, the dresses revealed the bride in each of the models. If you want to see more just ckick on the photo.

Caving

shimmering
Originally uploaded by Annie-G2007.

Have you been down below the earths surface? The amazing underground of the earth is really cool, dark and wet. And the funny thing about the underworld is that the caves used to be a water spring, and when it settled, the rains would come down melt the limestone rocks on the surface, seap through the earth surface, and form "Stalactites'" on the roof of the underwater spring cave. Well I don't know whether I explained that very good but It was interesting anyways. If you want to visit these caves, I went to the Yarrangobilly Caves.

Dead man

Dead man
Originally uploaded by Annie-G2007.

I discovered in My emails awhile ago that someone had sent to me some really cool paper art cut outs. They were so awesome that i had to show you, and you can look at my flickr account if you would like to see some more.This amazing use of paper with positive and negitive space, shows the complexity of paper art itself. I study fine art and majored in drawing, so the use of paper is important.

Aesthetics! Aesthetics!

Aesthics is something that everyone needs to understand in order for people to be interested in your stuff. The definifion of the word aesthics is:

"the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the meaning and validity of critical judgments concerning works of art, and the principles underlying or justifying such judgments."
(from: "http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=aesthetics" accessed on the 17th of May 2007)

In a nut shell, people are looking for the look of the presentation, and the quality of the presentation.

So I found one that really was aesthetically pleasing and easy to use, It is Aardman which features the well known Wallace and Gromit series (as you can see cute Shaun the sheep) and the famous animated family movie= Chicken run. In this site the colours go well and even the links marry well within the composition. The colors don't clash and the effort looks like it's there. It's not over whelming with pictures and text, but contained within a shape that focuses your eye to the important links and parts on the site. Because it is a animation buisness it has little cute birds that pretend to fly. i really like it and it's easy to use.

I am yet to find a site I really don't like.

What the heck is XML?

XML is described as Extendable markup language, and is useful for the data exposed and organized on the Internet. And RSS is a navigation tool in which you can interconnect your web pages, such as your email account and your del.icio.us account, and get regular updates on your uploads. This abbreveation can mean Rich Site Summary or Really simple syndication. There were two RSS tools I could use, One was Google Reader and the other Bloglines. I personally choose Google reader, because it was already with my gmail account, and I wanted to use this email account more often. It was also helpful as it gave you a tour before you signed up. Very helpful.

Assessments suck!

My assessment Sucks!
For My assessment I really didn't know what to expect and what I got was much more than what I could imagine. I really didn't know what I was doing (hence the "dontgetit" part in my address) but thought I would give it a go anyways. Trying to follow the guide lines of the assessment and trying to create the "interestingness" affect on my accounts in Blog spot, delicious and flickr, I tried hard to include my life into this assessment since life itself is interesting.

First My "flickr". This is where i have uploaded images that would interest other people, but also had interested me recently and updating my life as I go. I have made the layout easily accessible to my sets and tagged each photo so it's related to the event that happened. I have titled each photo, and tried to comment on these, where possible. The tags in which i have created includes Anniversary, Girls Brigade, fun, easter camp, wedding and dutch. These tags are moments in my life which have made an impact not only in my social life but also in my outlook on life. Unfortunately, I have not been able to join any groups in this web site, nor had a chance to connect with any contacts. This I would love to have done, and would love to do this, this term. I have not been educated in this area nor interested in the internet community until now. I have however made sure that if someone did stumble across my flickr account that my profile was uploaded and ready for people to read.

My Delicious account is other site that I thought was really useless to me until I thought that this is a good page set up as my home page. It is then you have all your bookmarks there ready for you when you want to surf the web. Again this is new to me, and so I have not subscribed to any networks or saved tags or bookmarks for anyone. I simply was trying to get the hang of this bookmark thing and use it to the best of my ability. I want to use this site more in my work flow as my tool, as i get more proficient.

My Blogspot describes me. Pink and feminine. Well that could be debatable. My blogspot describes the events of my life as it happens. I tried to put up posts that were unique and that not everyone would experience. How often do you get to dress up in a dutch costume and wear clogs, or Play in mud that you can get an instant hair dye and tan? The layout was influenced off the multimedia metablog site. It was easy to use and everything was right there with out having to search for it. This was very new to me, so not being on the interactive side I lacked socializing in the internet community. I have tried to change the layout and try different colours, and I seemed to like this one best.