Summary

Bloggers, readers and anyone who will take the time to begin to read this entry...

I just want you to know over the past few weeks i have learnt so many things in multimedia, things i have always wanted to know but never took the time to find out. I have written a total of 13 posts including, SYTYCD , Need for sleep , Original blogs ,My first blog , Jack and CSS

I have used a number of tags including Brie, mpi104 and the subject of my blog such as "CSS". Extra items i have added are a greetings message and a quick profile. 

Flickr is an online community in the form of a picture sharing web site allowing up to 200 images on a free account. I have 26 currently on my flickr account which is organized into 3 sets. My opinion of flickr is high because i think it is a valuable resource but there are many other websites such as facebook out there that contain the same functions and even more. Some of my favorite pictures include Bee in a box ,Kim's 18th The love child and Gelati but although these picture may not mean very much to others they mean a lot to me therefore i want to share them with others. 

While Del.icio.us on the other hand is a website for saving and storing websites and uses folksonomy to organize pages. You can also download extensions to your web browsers to make it easy to add bookmarks. My first opinion of Del.icio.us was that it was useless why not just download bookmarks to your own computer? But then in practice when i realized that when i'm not at my own computer this is such a time saving website. Some of my favorite and most used websites include, Ebay, Australian Ballet, and The forum. These are of interest to me because i use them constantly to buy things, look up movies and being a ballerina to find the latest from the Australian ballet. I currently have 24 web pages saved in my Del.icio.us account but i can see this drastically increasing in the near future. 

However none of this is of great importance because the most important thing i have learnt so far in multimedia is to have patience because nothing is just going to appear or happen for you, you have to do it for yourself. But what i have learnt is that when all else fails you can turn to google because google is run on folksonomy and tags so no matter what you type in to the search engine you will recieve some information on that topic...

I hope to tell you about more things i have learnt and lessons i have learned until next time, stay devoted...

Brie xoxoxxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

Google

Hey this is a blog i accidently deleted a few weeks ago but here it is for your viewing... enjoy

I am amazed that in all my years of using google there is still a whole world out there i never knew about. I mean the classic google images and google videos are always a great source of entertainment when avoiding doing work and a great source of inspiration... occasionally. Google blogs seems like a interesting place to be other then quite a few of the blogs are on topics neither useful or things i wanted to know. I have used google maps before and i think the greatest thing is that you can type in two locations and they will display directions from how to get from point a to point b other then this innovative technology tells you to turn right where there is NO RIGHT TURN. This makes it very difficult when you're in a place you've never been... I like google chat, gmail and google docs as these are useful easily assessable tools for everyday use. Finally i am so excited about google translate because this is a piece of technology i have always wanted to use but never had the imagination to find out. In conclusion i am happy with google but somethings could be improved for perfectionist like myself...

From the amazing MPI104 student Brie 

P.S I wish someone told me about the quotation marks years ago!!!!

Jack Won

 Jack won so you think you can dance. I couldn't believe it!!!! He really did deserve to win though. And for those of you who don't watch it you should!!! It shows some amazing dancers and amazing talent that makes Australia one of the most talented nations... Well relatively talented... Until next time

Brie xxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

SYTYCD

So much excitement is in the air...

Yes i am talking about the final of So You Think You Can Dance Australia and i'm afraid i am shamfully a diehard fan!!!! Even more unbeleiveable is that the one person i really wanted to win from the very first episode (JACK) has made it to the final four. I am very excited  about this but the downfall to this show ending is that big Brother is about to start. I can not even contemplate the thought of having that show still on TV and i don't think having new hosts is going to make some of those dreadful contestants any more bareable. I remember once that big brother got taken off air for technical difficulties and that moment was the happiest moment of my TV watching experience because it was one second less i had to watch or hear of this show. 

However being a potential TV crew member i think it is TV shows like this that are stealing our potential employment!!!! But i obviously don't feel too strongly about this because honestly if Big Brother offered me a job with a nice pay package... I would take it... and before you start ripping on me for being a hippocrit i must point out being a poor uni student isn't as appealing as you might think!!!! 

I am absolutely loving the montages SYTYCD is making and the slow motion shots are beautiful, you can really admire the crew of this show. Anyways i must leave you at this point waiting for the announcement to be decided.... I'm so nervous and i'm only watching it....

Brie xxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo 

Need for Sleep

Dear Bloggers,

I suppose you're all wondering what i have been up to lately. Well i can tell you i haven't been getting a lot of sleep but i have no idea what i have been doing. I think i need to stop staying out late and start getting up early. In theory this could actually happen, i could actually get up but somehow i am physically incapable of doing this. However i'd like to blame alcohol it keeps me out late, makes my skin disgusting and lowers my intelligence all at the same time. Therefore at this point I'm going to say alcohol is the cause of my lack of sleep and i'd like to blame it for a couple of other things as well. So i'd like to do a bit of a social experiment for those of you who are reading does alcohol affect your sleeping patterns? Tell me as a comment on this blog and i will ask people so stay tuned for my next blog for the results. Can't wait to hear from you all...

Brie xoxoxoxoxoxox

Original blogs

Reader, Supporters and others who have got lost on the internet and come across my blog...

In writing this blog i can't help but wonder what was the original purpose of blogs, and then after some research, i discovered that blogs were originally used as bulletin board systems (BBS) and was used to post messages on a metaphorical cork board. However these messages were out of order making the newest posts at the bottom of the page which of much inconvenience, but after some tweaking people developed online blogging software. Since then blog became more like an online diary where people would express information about elements of their lives. I think some blogs are boring because some people's lives aren't as interesting as they may have perceived such as this blog but i suppose everyone view of blogs are different. Although I do think it is amazing that they have pinpointed the first blog down to one person swarthmore college. I hope one day i can write an interesting blog that people would read but until then it is just you and me my reader.... thankyou

Brie xoxoxoxoxo

CSS

                   

It has been a while my devoted devoted readers,

Today we looked at css (custom style sheets) which is mainly used to style web pages written in HTML and can define colours, fonts and layouts. I think there

 are many many advantages of using CSS because it saves a lot of time, it allows you to customize a range of pages rather then just one, it also allows

 you to have creative control of every aspect of your pages. However CSS is not as easy to use as i thought it would be. All i wanted to achieve was to add a 

pattern to the background of my blog. Although i knew how to change the colour of my background, placing a pattern there was an irritating task. However 

after a lot of testing we came across a website  that can create the CSS code for you. After discovering this the job of customizing a blog was not as hard 

as i had first thought. 

When looking at a page that has no style the whole page becomes more like a big list and unformatted so you really realize how important layout and CSS 

are. It also shows how important CSS is in being about to easily alter web pages. 

One thing i have learnt is that even though you have the option and skill to do something doesn't mean it should be done. For example my blog is very 

difficult to read when there is a complex pattern behind each of the words. So until next time i hope you all like what i have done with my blog...

BRIE XOXOXOXOXOXOXO

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Web Storers

My faithful faithful devoted readers...

DEL.ICIO.US is a very interesting resource. I played around with it today. At first i thought it was extraordinarily good because it saved me time in getting the places i needed to go such as the MPI104 website... However then i realised that it was not very user friendly because i could not figure out how to create a network and on attempting to use the help option i got even more confused. Even the very intelligent people around me could not work it out and if it wasn't for my unhumanly intelligent teacher i would have never found out. Therefore flickr is not all i thought it was gonna be. I also found out there are many other web storers such as This web storer   Or this    Or THIS .

I found these links in a matter of minutes just by searching google. in conclusion DEL.ICIO.US is interesting but not extraordinarily user friendly and not very unique. 

Until next time my faithful reader i will leave you with these words... use DEL.ICIO.US but make someone explain it first. 

From the awesomeness that is BRIE xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

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