MPI104-2007 McCarthy. K 11362975

Del.icio.us
I currently have 40 links bookmarked in my del.icio.us account. I have found this site to be very useful in organizing my bookmarks, as well as finding useful links to topics relevant to my studies in the MPI104-2007 subscription, as well as through the other subscription I have joined. I have found that networking has also been useful in this respect as I am hoping to build my network over time to include other del.icio.us accounts by people in the VFX101 and MPI104 courses. However, I feel I have neglected this aspect of the site which I believe could be very useful and hope to build on my network in the future.
I have attempted to add interestingness to this page by bookmarking a variety of sites of different topics and through my descriptions of these sites. I also hope that by progressively adding more bookmarks I will have increased the interestingness of my del.icio.us account. Each time I have found a site I am interested in or think would be useful to revisit, I’ve added it to my bookmarks, and, over time, have compiled a useful collection of sites which I revisit often.
I have also found that the ability to add descriptions has been useful as my previous bookmarking system did not have this feature, and I often found I had difficulty distinguishing which bookmarked site I was looking for as I had many sites listed of a similar subject. Using the description feature I am able to record what it was I found interesting on each site, making it easier to revisit particular information later.
I have integrated the use of tags easily into my work and find them of particular use when searching for information for a particular subject, such as VFX101 or MPI104. I have used tags which help me to easily look for sites related to a particular subject as this has helped organize my bookmarks in a way that I find useful to my studies as I can easily access related sites. I have also used bundles to assist in this.
I have easily integrated del.icio.us into my workflow and find it of great use to my Bolgspot account. When searching for something to blog about, I often found myself visiting my del.icio.us account to look for interesting sites I had bookmarked previously and used these as the basis the subject of my blogs.

Blogspot
I am very happy with the progress I have made with my blogspot account. I found I struggled with the idea of blogging to begin with as I had never done this before. However, over time I have become more comfortable with blogging and find it a useful way of documenting my interests. I enjoy adding page elements (such as the news and video reels in the side bar), pictures and videos which I believe add interestingness to my Blog. I also believe having a co-contributor has added to the interestingness of my blog as it provides some variation in the writing style and subject matter.
When selecting a template for my page, I wanted something neat and simple as I hoped to put many pictures and videos into my blogs and I felt anything with a brightly coloured or patterned background would detract from these. I chose the current template as I thought this was the best style for the type of blog I was writing.
I have found that the network of MPI104-2007 blogs has been useful in my workflow also, as many I was able to find some very interesting blogs by people with similar interests. An example of such a blog is Monkey House, on which I have left a comment which I believe to be one of the more interesting comments I have left.

Flickr
I have only recently started using Flickr, as I have not found much need for this site. I find the site confusing and messy and not particularly useful to my workflow. Perhaps over time, with more use, this site will become more useful to me, however, I prefer my previous method of storing, organizing and uploading photos as it is more relevant to my needs and work processes.
The networking system I find a little more useful as I have found a couple of pictures which I have added as favourites, and this source of images may prove to be useful in the future. However, I find my images to be unorganized and irritating to sort through. This is a problem I have tried to rectify through adding sets, but I still find this to be limiting to the organization of the images I have uploaded. Again the tagging system has its uses when searching for images, and I have added tags to assist in the organization of my images.