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While considering a topic for the final project, I realized that maybe certain subjects are better suited for print media. So, I began to brain storm and couldn’t come up with any examples. No matter what subject popped into my head, I quickly thought of ways to enhance the presentation with the help of a blog and its many uses.

The question now becomes how to effectively use what is available in such a way that the reader’s experience is improved. A common complaint I often hear is the length of blog posts and the reader’s lack of patience. We have to take this into consideration. Often times, I begin a post and my mind shoots off in 10 different directions simultaneously.

We are writing to an audience or to readers who have very short attention spans. We previously discussed in class the structural technique of including a short summary to the reader with an option to delve deeper on a different page. I think the two examples given were Wired and The New York Times.  This format seems very effective.

If the reader wants to skim the headlines due to time constraints or lack of focus, presto! The blog offers the equivalent of an abstract. If they have more time and interest, there will not only be a longer and maybe well researched piece, but there will be video, photographs, and further links.

The crux of the blog’s biscuit, as also discussed in class, may be the linking option. The sense of community is greatly enhanced as one individual writer or blogger includes fellow bloggers who researched a different angle, conducted better interviews, or added some other intriguing component to the story.

WordPress may be designed for writers rather than HTML coders. It may seem too user friendly, but it was probably designed this way intentionally.

Multimedia blogs still require raw research tactics like consulting primary sources, completing research,  and conducting interviews. As mentioned earlier, there are blogs that use the new possibilites to their advantage and others who add too much.

It seems like a new level of editing. How to shorten sentences and trim words is  yesterday’s limit and today we’ve added the skill of inserting photographs video in effective places to amplify a story.

Tomorrow, we may be editing telepathic messages. In the waiting room, I hope to apply the HTML codes we are learning in class to blog writing. In order to do this, I should probably start a new blog on a site other than wordpress.

The answer to this blog post is yes! We should definitely blog!

I am in the midst of securing the webmaster position for the Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association (CIBA). If this comes to be, I hope to use this volunteer venture as my final project. It requires alot of networking with the few people who captured video and shot photographs of last year’s Concordia Stionger’s baseball team. In addition, I will need to communicate with the sports information department from various school for rosters, statistics, and additional photographs.

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