About Myself and Introduction to Blogging

I thought for the first post, it would be most appropriate to introduce myself, my interests, future goals and what my overall understand of blogging is.

Being one of my first blog attempts, most likely it won't make any sense...but here goes!

My name is James and I am studying I.T and Software Engineering at Swinburne Lilydale.

Computers have always been my thing, the moment I could understand how to use a mouse I was mucking around and most likely causing damage to any PC I could get my hands on.

After completing High School, I choose to complete an IT Degree.

I have chosen media subjects as electives as I enjoy the overall field of media. I also find it a bit easier to study and find that it requires less work then some of the business subjects offered!

I took 6 to 12 months off last year to do IBL. Difficult at first, once you become used to working in the corporate environment 5 days a week it is rather hard to back to the studying university life. If I can make a recommendation....do IBL!!!

When I finished IBL I applied for another position and because of my experience in the field, I was granted the job in 2 days!

Currently I am still working in that same job as an IT Consultant while studying at university….. It’s a hard life! But all is coming to an end and I will be a graduate at the end of the year!! (About Time)

Now onto what the term blogging means me:

In the last tutorial we talked about blogging. My understanding of blogging is that it is a log of data that contains images, text, objects and data which are arranged as requested by the user, normally from the latest post to the first post in a user requested web browser such as Internet Explorer or Mesilla.

Blogs can contain any data but mainly contain a title, description of the blog, and an overall link. The great thing about blogging is, the blogger can write about and include almost anything ranging from pictures to videos to text about whatever topic they like which can span from world news to personal issues to product reviews.

Bloggers normally create entires on a range of topics. Typical are blogs on current affairs which can be seen on the www.news.com.au website. When an article is written by a journalist, their is an option to submit your view on the topic. This has become a very strong point for eBusiness because it allows the public to have their say!

Hyper linking from blog to blog is also very popular and is often used to bring together all the bloggers. This is what is known as the "Blogosphere"; basically referring to community of all bloggers.

I hope you have enjoyed reading my half hearted attempt at blogging and just for all of your entertainment and eCulture requirements, I will be posting another on weekly basis!