Last post + 3 posts nominee

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to the LAST post of my blog. There's a few things I need to talk about. Firstly, I need to apologize about my crappy English. I just came to Australia 2 years ago and English is my 2nd language. There are some spelling mistakes and bad grammars in each entry. However I went through each post and tried to correct every mistake I could find, just to make my blog better for everyone to read and understand what I try to say.
Secondly I have quite abit of audiences. My audience is anyone who love my style of writing and love to read my story which sometimes doesnt related to media at all. I think this is also one of the ways to increase your blog traffic. Once you write something interesting, then you will have more people who want to read your work. Or it can even be anybody who have the same interests as me. Well I have 5 followers in total. However my blog posts are not that interesting. However next time I would find the way to increase my traffic. What I can think of right now is try to add some videos or music, or maybe write something abit more interesting.
Blogroll is also really useful for me to get updated and see what people are doing. Also we can subscribe to other websites or other blog via RSS or really simple syndication. This will keep you up to date. Monetize can make me some money too but yeah thats not what I want to do at the moment.
In some of my blog posts, I have put some links that relate to the topic or the story I talked about. For example once I talk about google maps I also prvide link for the audiences to access google maps.
I also have a look at those traffic monitor tools which will show you the number of visitors who come to see your blog. That can help you thinking about increasing your audiences.
Finally I want to say having a blog is a good thing. We can share our stories or experiences or anything on this social media site. However I dont think it can be as good as facebook or twitter where everyone could update their stories very fast and seems like everyone can get into it easier. For example Facebook has that live feeds new feeds thing to show you what's happening right now. However we dont know whats going to happen in the future. Blogs could become even more popular than those social networks and they might have more features for users.
Anyway this is my first time having my own blog and I want to say I'm very proud of myself that I could write a post in each week for this assignment. Later if I have a chance to contribute my blog I will try harder to make it more interesting and talk more about good stuffs.

here are the 3 posts which I nominated:

http://gooodromance.blogspot.com/2010/03/gooodromancehyatt.html

http://gooodromance.blogspot.com/2010/03/because-love-doesnt-work-like.html

http://gooodromance.blogspot.com/2010/03/to-michael-honey.html

love u all, have a goodromance <3

The last one

Hey baby

Finally I finished my project B assignment for my networked media class. I spent alot of time doing it and the result turned out really worth my time. The thing I want to mention in my post for this week is our tutorial. As we all know tutorials are all the same and sometimes can be really boring. However our tutorial is unique. We had awesome people in our class, also we had probably the best tutor in town who's really cool and could keeps interest from everyone. I must say I didnt study really hard. Sometime I went on facebook instead of doing the exercise which out tutor provided for us. However I love this networked media class, my friends in there and our tutor. Everything mixes together and become gooodromance <3

xox

Project B Rationale

At first when I needed to choose between doing Data visualization and geo-narrative, it took me a while. I did some research about data visualization and also looked up for some good examples on internet. It seemed pretty interesting and very challenging. However at this stage I had no clue how to make one. Also I didnt have much time for this project so I did not want to risk anything. I moved to geo narrative. 'It's quite simple' was my thought at first. Nevertheless it just seemed like it. It's more complex and challenging than what I first thought. However it's also not too difficult for me to make one up. I just needed to make sure I spend enought time and put alot of effort doing this great piece of work.

At first I discussed with my mate who chosed to do the same thing. We came up with lots of great and interesting ideas. In the unit outline it said that we could do an essay-like argument, a documentary account or historical recreation, or a photographic tour. However I was not keen to do something like that because it sounds boring to me, and I dont want my audiences to get bored of it either. I wanted to do something fun and interesting. So I decided to a fictional story which would have interesting storyline.

I spent alot of time thinking of some ideas for the story. I wanted to make a comedy story so I talked about it with my friends and shared our great and funny live experiences. Also I went on internet to do some researh about stories writing. I went on yahoo to looked up some for great example of stories from people around the world. Pity there were not many of good ones. Most people just come and write complaining about their lives. Anyway google is my real friend. I looked up some funny stories on google. I eventually came up with this great story of one guy who is getting laid for the first time. He doesnt know anything about it so he goes to see the doctor and asks for the advices. At night he goes to his girl's place and turn out the doctor is his girl's daddy. The original story itself is pretty funny. However I added more charactor in it to make it even more interesting and funnier.

After I finished writting the story. I started pinning the map and adding the story in each one. I chosed the location in Canberra because it's where we live. Also I think it would be more interesting since the story happens in our native town. Also I took the pictures by myself with my digital camera. I didnt actually go to take photos on the location on the map. SInce I dont have a car it's really hard for me to go around Canberra. However I set up the scenes in university which looks similar to the place in the map. For example this scene when the charactor is at the pub. I didnt actually go to the pub but I went to the cafe area in university and picked the good spot for taking photos. It turned out look as if the picture was actually taking in the pub (for people who dont go to UC and havent been to the cafe area before it will even look more realistic.) Then when I got all the photos. I also used this Photoshop program which gave me a chance to edit and play around with contrass and colour to make my works look better. Here's the example:



As you can see the picture looks fine. However I decided to edit the colour and contrass abit to make it look even better



Now the image looks more interesting. After I finished editing all of my images. I uploaded them on Flickr. I chosed Flickr because its a very popular and reliable website where we can store and share our images for free. Also in my introduction to media production class we learnt about Flickr aswell so I think its the best to use this website. When I finished uploading my images I added them all to my google map by following the instruction on google website. Also I added some videos which related to the story. At first I had some problems adding them to my map, but after I had a chat with my tutor. She showed me how to do it and then I could do it without any problems. I also added some related links to my map aswell. For example there's a scene where the main charactor is going to meet his girlsfriend's dad. In that section I added the link to the article " what to do when ur meeting her dad". Its basically tell you how you should do & talk to the girls dad when you in the sitcation where you meeting him. haha pretty funny I know :P

Finally I have done all the work. I think my work is pretty good and very unique since I used google maps in the different way; presenting and telling story instead of just looking for the place to go or some academic stuffs. Also the story links itself to the culture that happens in this town Canberra and also what happens in the reality. If I had abit more time to do this project. I would make it even better by firstly I would go to the actual places in the story and take pictures for each scene. Secondly I would spend abit more time on the storyline. Eventhough I think its prety good, however Im pretty sure i could add abit more stuffs in it. The last thing is I would organise and manage to make up my own videos instead of youtube videos.

LINKS

- My Geo Narrative
- My Flickr collection

The end is near

Hey!!
first thing want to mention in this week blog is I JUST TURNED 19 on Wednesday!!!! hahaha happy birthday to myself. I was so happy :D alot of my friends came to see me at uni and at night i went to have dinner with this chick ;) sooo good
Back to our business sigh as I said I choose to do that geo-narrative thing on google. This week I finished like 50% of it? I have my story done and already put it on each destination. It's quite tricky since it's not just stick the point on the map and put random stuffs in. I have to make sure the destination points are in the correct spots. Also the story must be interesting ortherwise people who read it will get bored easily and dont feel like to read it anymore. So I spent alot of time making up this awesome story. It's a comedy story and also comes with the twist at the end so I hope people would enjoy reading it :)
After adding the story into the map, now i need to put some nice pictures, videos and links that related to the story in each destination. I plan to drive around and take the pictures during the weekends so I'm just trying to put videos into my map for now. At first I had abit of problems with puting the videos in. However I spoke to Sharron my tutor and she showed me how to do it so it's all good and I just spent the whole thursday night looking at the videos on youtube and put them into my map. I also added some links that I reckoned they are related to the story and might be useful to the reader in aswell.
Thats pretty much what I did for this week since I had to go party hard! hahaah xox