Blogging

Now that I have created the basics for the blog, I am going to use this opportunity to explore some of the other elements I could incorporate.

This will also benefit my other blog for Architecture & the Built Enviroment as I haven't really revisited/evaluated it's design since I created it and I know it can be improved. I really want to look at ways of encouraging interactivity via comments and try to build up a web 2.0 dialogue in particular for the subject based blog - so this will be something for me to investigate.

First post

Hi,

So this is my first blog post for 23 things - a little delayed but better late than never. I keep a blog for architecture and the built environment and have experimented in the past with blogs as a visual diary to record ideas that could be developed into something creative at a later stage.

For the task #1 I set about personalising my Google ipage, results below:

I really like the idea of having all this type of information at my fingertips and am pleased it was one of the tasks for 23 things. Particularly as it is something I had thought about creating before after being inspired by one of Phil Bradley's courses where he demonstrated some of the home/start pages he had set up using other web 2.0 applications (netvibes, pageflakes etc.)

I am going to make a concerted effort to maintain this and like Ellie perhaps use it as my homepage so it encourages me to make the best use of it!