Annual Reflection »
It has been a little over a year since I opened lilula and since then so much has happened. Only a few things have remained consistent. For instance, I intended on making this a professional playground where I could be a little more articulate than the generic day-to-day blogger. It also stood as a place-holder for my online alias and identity, so that I could build a strong connection between my social accounts. Another intention I had was to eventually turn lilula into a portfolio, which has since happened. But that is where the list ends.
Colour As a Learning Tool »
I had an interesting conversation about colourfeed with someone who has a specific form of dyslexia. She took a liking to my poster and intrigued me about how schools cater for learning disabilities by using creative methods. Often this is through the use of colour. In her specific case, everything needs to be tinted in blue for her to be able to read the sentence without displacing words.
Dissertation: How to survive personal blogging — Download dissertation
“According to the BBC News website at least one blog is created every second. That’s over sixty blogs in a minute, three-thousand six-hundred an hour and around thirty million blogs being created per annum.
A startling number, and yet there is no doubt that since the publication of that particular article that the number has increased. The world is becoming a blogging tapestry built on worldwide contributions – a global village through which tribes assemble and thrive on mass amateurism.
The aim of this dissertation is to study the way social circles within the blogosphere function, collide and coincide – particularly the one I associate myself with. Over the years I have managed to observe the social mannerisms of this circle. Now I plan on finding any commonalities and
differences between this circle of personal bloggers and those outside it.”
“How to Survive Personal Blogging” is based on a combination of my own experiences and research. It looks at how different blogging cultures are today compared to previous observations, and how groups of people online form their own rules and norms to conform to. The final result achieved a first-class award.