Social Mediatization

After some consideration, I decided to link my WordPress to my public Twitter feed and my public Instagram. These now appear as widgets on the sidebar of my blog. I’ll be very forthright: I’m not sure that I totally understand how to use this web tool. WordPress seems made for people who’s technological interests go beyond mine. For instance, I find myself disappointed by the the Twitter widget which appears cut off and confusing on my blog page, but I don’t know how to fix it.

However, in it’s new form, my WordPress has become more interactive and connected. It now no longer participates solely in the void of itself. It has become socially media-tized, one might say.

In terms of mise-en-page, or in lay terms “page layout”, I’m not all that sure that much has changed. This is an evolving project and an evolving effort to apply the concepts our class discusses with the technology at hand. So here’s my warning: This WordPress is about to start evolving. It’s gonna get weird, it’ll probably be ugly for a while. Hopefully it will emerge as a pretty butterfly when this is all said and done.

Nest step: design a master page. I personally dislike “welcome” pages, or master pages. I prefer a header that gives you all you need and then get’s you right to the information. So, I don’t know that I’m going to make a master page. I think I might just try to engage you, dear reader, with my heading. As of now, that just means some words, but maybe sometime soon it could be more than that. I imagine something clean, lots of lines and geometric shapes and an image. Look forward to that, dear reader.

 

UPDATE 10/17/13: As the semester has evolved, so has this blog. I now have a new header image (all my own!). I took this shot of my friend’s dog just as he was getting up to move. I think it basically sums up the feel of the blog: it is half-formed, theoretical and in constant motion. The unsettled nature of the dog reflects my own unsettled feelings about this whole blogging process. I can’t help returning to the idea that this will be here forever. Makes me want to scurry away like this here dog-fellow.