What is Podcasting

Current Mood : Whimsical
Currently listening To: Poor Thing - Sweeney Todd

There's roughly an hour or so before the 2nd booklet of the OSSLT starts. I'm currently camping out in one of the empty classroom enjoying the air condition all by myself with the company of two friends. =)

So nice to have our own privacy and not have to cramp with the other students in the library hahahahhahha.

So, with nothing better to do I went surfing online to find out more about podcasting, since we now have that as part of our blog tasks. Even though I have heard about it constantly and think I sort of know what it is, I thought to play it safe I should know exactly what I'm in for.

The definition that I managed to gather is that podcasting is akin to online broadcast media, which is usually audio but lately that had expanded to videos as well, which just about anyone can create.

I don't think I really got what the hullabaloo about podcasting was and why it was hugely popular, till I scrolled down wikipedia.org and read this excerpt:

Though podcasters' web sites may also offer direct download or streaming of their content, a podcast is distinguished from other digital media formats by its ability to be syndicated, subscribed to, and downloaded automatically when new content is added, using an aggregator or feed reader capable of reading feed formats such as RSS or Atom.

Which was just brilliant cause now I totally don't understand whats going on. I relatively know what Podcast is now and after some research I understand it's usability... but what on earth is RSS.... and Atom?

Sigh.

I'm going home and piling up the homework tonight. There is, I believe, a heck load of reading to do before I can even publish one podcast. Sometimes technology can be such a pain.

Think I understand how an ancient struggles with the terminologies of tech nowadays. I don't get it myself.

I need an ice-pack.





[Edit] This post was only posted on Sunday, and not Thursday due to personal reasons and a very misbehaving net connection.

Web design VS print design

Current Mood : Upset
Currently listening To: Before the World Began - Hillsong


Honestly I never knew there could be so so so so much difference between print design and web design. But after completing the class presentations today, I felt I have learnt a whole lot more about both sets of designs, their various types of similarities and also the differences.

Personally I focused more on the production of the web design and print design, meaning to say my main purpose was to focus on the 'design' of both publications. Initally thinking that I covered a rather good scope, I was soon proven wrong as the other presentations by other students took place.

There was this entirely broader dimension about the said topic that I had yet to explore, and probably could have fared better if I did. Still it was really interesting to be able to understand a little bit more about the topic from the other group members, so overall the experience was a pretty great eye opener. Some members had really nice powerpoint layouts too so I learnt a lot from that aspect as well.

Thank goodness my sense of color coordination made a somewhat come back today. I think my page layouts were pretty alright, some I liked enormously such as the typography page. Some I think I should just go bury myself haha.

The only thing that I was sorry about is the fact that I talked my head off during my presentation a bit too much till I nearly lost direction on the way. There were some bits of information that I felt I should have included but was unable to, because my brain was working in fast mode. Happens whenever there is a time-limit pressure. I tend to worry I can't say everything I want to say and hence I sped up my talking pace and that probably lost some students too.