RWMC assignment

Media Diary

Saturday March 5^th

Media Diary

Donny Wibowo

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7.30am: Woke up to alarm clock from mobile phone playing Korean song. I woke up and looked at the clock only to realize it was Saturday then utter to myself why I had not turn off the alarm clock the night before. I went back to sleep.

10.30am: I woke up again without the help of alarm clock this time. I still lay on my bed because I slept late last night. Check my blackberry phone, there is 5 new blackberry messenger chat, all from my friend asking me to join them for lunch, too lazy will reply later.

11.00am: turned on the television, flicked through the channel, there was nothing that interests me.

11.05am: still flicking the channel, then I found hit sitcom series “How I met your mother” is playing on the television so I decided to watch because I was too lazy to get out of the bed.

11.20am: finished watching, still very sleepy, idly I walked to my desk and turn on my laptop, while waiting for my laptop to starting up, I went to the washroom.

11.30am: after finished washing up, I went back to my room, then straight to my laptop. The first website I opened is facebook to check if there is new notification. There were 8 new notifications but noting important.

11.50am: decided to get out of the house, called up my friends to agree to the invitation for lunch before. There is a bunch of mainstream music was being played on the radio.

12.05pm: I arrived at the restaurant and it had the same radio station that I had in my car.

1.40pm: got back home. My friends wanted to play video games at my house so bunch of my friends went to my home. Some of them playing games and some of them just were talking in the living room area.

3.00pm: all my friends all went back home so I feel a bit bored so I decided to went to sleep for a while.

5.20pm: I woke up and feel hungry so I turned on my speaker and turn on some music then started to cook.

6.00pm: finished with the cooking and cleaning. I turned on my laptop to check new email and information. There was nothing important. So I watch few youtubes videos.

6.30pm: feel bored so I turned on the tv but there was nothing interesting so I turned on my ps3 console and started play video games.

8.00pm: turned off the ps3, and started browsing the internet, opened ebay to look up some stuffs.

10.00pm: feel sleepy so I went to sleep early because I had to wake up early in the morning.

5.00am: suddenly woke up because my phone was ringing, It was unknown number so I picked it up and it was my drunk friend asking me to join them, I refused him and went back to sleep.

Summary:

 This diary reflect my weekend life because I have nothing to do on the weekend all day expect hanging out with my friend and laying on my bed all the day while watching tv.

Listen to music 2 hours

Playing games 3 hours

Watching dvd and tv 4 hours

Using blackberry 12 hours

EXEGESIS

The Theme of my web presence was hard to find, as I was not very sure of the theme that I should be doing. The initial theme that I want to do for my web presence is music however, I reckon it is quite hard because I have not done many interview yet with decent musicians that could help my blogs interesting. So finally, after giving a lot of thoughts, I decided to tackle the theme of photography, the other subject that I currently take interest in. it was quite interesting theme for me because I like to take pictures with a Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) and I have quite a lot of collection from my trip and journey of live in Perth.

            As this is my first time doing a web presence, I was not sure the website to choose to be my central node, the only website that I know is facebook and flickr, I never touch anything from blogger, myspace, wikipedia, and other websites that eligible to be the central node. However, I think Facebook is going to be a hard for me if I chose facebook to be my central node because it is not as flexible as blogger, as the application does not allow me to link my contributing nodes as simple as blogger. So my quickest and safest choice for my central node is blogger because I think the website is very flexible and allow me to put as many application and web elements as I want. Rebecca Blood once stated in her article that blooger “…places not restrictions on the form of content being posted. Its web interface, accessible from any browser, consists of an empty form box in which the blogger can type…anything.” (Blood, 2000).  So in a way, I can do everything that I want with blogger, including put three of the contributing nodes on the sidebar.

            The template that I use is called Watermark template. I chose this template because it was simple and it has nice colour as I was trying to get the calm look for my blog and I like the design with the bird on the upper right of the blog page. I think that watermark template has a nice colour without too much design and decoration. The font that I use for the post is Arial because it think it looks more elegant and beautiful compared to other font types and I also find it very easy to read with a brown background and black coloured font. The Watermark template seems to be the choice for my blog because it brings out the entire headline box and all my contributing nodes box so the reader could easily notice those things. For the picture on top of the blog I chose the picture that I took myself from one of my trip. I like to put this picture up because I think this picture gives a nice colour too and it is in sync with the background colour.

            There are five posts total in my blog. It is all the pictures that I took by myself so I have no problem with the copyrights or permission. The format that I chose to do is I have four large pictures, two in the bottom page and two in the upper page, then an extra large picture in the middle. I put them in a zigzag way so I alligned the first picture on the left and the second picture on the right and so on. For each post and pictures, I chose not to babble too much about my picture because I want the reader to be focusing on my pictures instead of reading text in my blog. I also decided to have a simple about me because I have nothing to introduce myself except a basic introduction.

            On my sidebar, I put the about me part in the first order then followed by my three contributing nodes which is flicker, twitter, and facebook. The of course, I did not forget to put the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed so the reader could read my blog in their smart phone.

For my three contributing nodes, I chose Flicker, twitter, and facebook. Originally, I wanted to put the link of my youtube channel as my contributing nodes because I think it is a good idea to put a youtube channel and share camera techniques videos as my favourite videos so my blog reader could get the information. However somehow, youtube gadget is broken and I could not put up my youtube channel as I always get the error message from blogger. So I replace youtube to twitter account. On my twitter account, I follow four twitter account that I think relevant to my blog theme which is photography. In my facebook page, I also still instill the theme of my blog, I “like” a few of photography page in the facebook and I uploaded some of my pictures collection. And the last contributing nodes that I chose is flickr, the theme of my blog is photography and flickr is a picture sharing social network so I thought that I had to put flickr as my contributing nodes of course, so in my flickr account, I also uploaded some pictures in my flickr album. In the right side of my blog, all my three contributing nodes are located. And as for the link to my central nodes from the contributing nodes all located in each of the profiling page.

            So in conclusion, my web presence is using Blogger website as the central node and as the three contributing nodes, I chose to go with flickr, twitter, and facebook that allows me to express my self as a photography enthusiasts. With the creation of the four nodes and using the technology of web 2.0 tool, I could express my self through a consistent theme across four website.

Reference:

Blood, Rebecca. “Weblogs: A History And Perspective”, Rebecca’s Pocket. 07 September 2000. http://rebeccablood.net/essays/weblog_history.html

Green & co.

This random picture taken from a cafe called Green & co. and it was located in Leederville. Actually I took this picture without any settings or techniques, i just like this picture because how the lamps are lined up and the lighting was good so I decided to share this picture with you guys.

Monkey Mia

This picture also from my upnorth trip earlier this year, it was in Monkey Mia where we can meet all the dolphin at certain time. In this picture is my friend and his girlfriend, they wanted to take a picture because the scene resemble with the scenc from some asian dramas.

Guitar and Photo

This pictured was inspired by a picture that I saw in the Internet, it was a picture of joker card slipped trough a bicycle wheel and i thought it was a very creative idea so I took the idea and tried it for my self. So I chose my guitar and a photo of me with bunch of my friends because that pretty much important for me. I edited this photo using lightroom program with a standard setting for black and white pictures.