Working on the Site

So, I found a website maker called SynthaSite and made a website called "The Lily Pad". It's not an actual website yet because I'm still working on it, but it seems to be coming out great so far. I made a group on Facebook where people can upload pictures to me. My email is also up there for people who wish to send me poems and/or short stories. So far two people have sent me poems and three (four including myself) have given me many photographs which I have uploaded.

What I'm also thinking about doing is adding an article a week about a modern day artist/writer or an event that involves art. I'm having a lot of trouble finding people/events to write about. I did numerous searches on Google News, New York Times, and even just plain old Yahoo! and I couldn't find anything. I think what I'm going to do is message all of the people in my Facebook group and see if they have anyone of interest that they want to know more about.

I'm so excited about this website, I hope that it will be up as soon as possible and that I will be able to find some type of "artsy" news available.

New Project

When I graduate college, I really want to write for a magazine...maybe eventually become editor of my own. I would really like to write for a fashion magazine or some type of literary magazine. For my final project for my journalism class, I would like to create some type of online magazine and find some way to gain traffic to my site.

I went on Yahoo! and searched "online magazines" and found a site called Magatopia. This site contains many links to all different websites of magazines. I looked at some of the websites that I would be interested in (Seventeen, Cosmo Girl, and Elle). These sites contain a variety of different applications ranging from quizzes, advice, fashion, celebrity news, and games. I think that this may be a little difficult for me to put together a site like this in such a short amount of time. I think I am going to go more of the literary magazine root and obtain works of art from people I know or maybe who I don't know.

Now I have to figure out how to make this website. I'm not really sure how to and I've never done it before. I've made a wikipage and a blog but nothing with links or anything that would really bring in traffic. I'll probably have to search for a site to find a free website maker.

Podcasting This I Believe

I finally finished my essay and I think that it is some what decent. As anyone can tell from some of my previous entries, I had an extremely difficult time starting this essay. I really couldn't think of any kind of idea. Everything I thought about seemed too juvenile or cliche to me; i felt like I could come up with a better topic. What I did come up with was how I had an experience that caused me not to trust people and how I eventually overcame that distrust.

It's not my best work but I guess I'll have to deal since I already recorded it. Yes, you read correctly, the whole class was asked to record our essays for the world to hear (well, maybe not the world but you catch my drift). I really hate my voice when I hear it on recordings or videos; I feel like I sound nasally and monotonous. It was a little hard to record it because I felt like I was stumbling on my words but the recording turned out to be something that I wouldn't mind sharing with other people.

The next step is uploading our recordings onto a page for another class of students, doing the same assignment, to listen to. We will also get a chance to listen to their essays and compare them with our own. I hope I get some good feedback on my essay/podcast; I'm really interested in finding out what people I don't know think of it.