Well for this week we were asked to discuss how visual media (i.e. pictures, video, etc) embedded into ones blog can change how people read it or even feel about it. The problem with doing this assignment is that sadly all the blogs we need to analyze are featured on our class website, which is featured on ASU's website. Since this past Friday it seems as if all of ASU's web related things have been down, which is making doing assorted assignments quite difficult. In light of this lovely technical difficulty I've decided to just go with a fun little analysis of the idea of visual media in a person's blog.
Personally I don't intend to use anything more visual than the writings, and rantings, I put on this page. For me a nice clean crisp page is all the more interesting compared to what sometimes amounts to a "picture book" of jumbled images. Though there are plenty of blogs out there that do a good job with their imagery and even with it entice their readers to a greater level of interest.
A fellow classmate of mine does an interesting job of including visual media into their blog "I'm out like a Russian Monarch after 1917". At the start of, and sometimes in the middle of every posting she makes Apryl includes some kind of visual cue to the reader. Sometimes its a picture of the news event she's discussing, other times its a loosely abstract representation of an idea related to what she's discussing. All in all this can be very enjoyable and insightful into how she thinks about things.
There are many authors who work their blogs in this way, but I still prefer just plain old text. Though since I'm made this statement I'm sure we'll be having some sort of assignment now in the coming weeks to use a more visual approach to a blog.
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