Better late than never. I hope.

When first hearing of our blogging exercise I harboured both dread and excitement. Excitement at being able to produce something tangible and interact but dreading that this product was public and I was going to have to face my own technophobia. Both my excitement and dread were fuelled by Adrian Mile’s piece Blogs in Media education. The piece revelled the full potential of what I could create but also highlight how easy it is for others to view. However what excited me was the notion of blogs being something (ironically) organic that is always growing, changing and dependent upon its interaction with other blogs. The more we share between blogs and other places on the World Wide Web the more our blogs grow. The more we write, the more we find tonal variation as we shift between lengthy and more succinct posts.

As Adrian delved back into the discussion of books having a definite beginning and ending my mind wandered. More specifically it wandered back to the days when I read the dog-eared Doctor Who Make Your Own Adventure Books. Every time I sent K-9 to some morbid robotic demise it was under different circumstances at a different place in the novel. In that sense the book didn’t end where the yellowing pages finished, it could have easily jumped back to section 14. You could bounce between sections, stuck within a cycle of actions that always lead you back to being captured by Daleks. If you were stupid enough to try and escape immediately you would be captured once again. It’s just like when you keep finding yourself back on Slayer’s Wikipedia page due to some convoluted hyperlink trail (A friend told me this happens).
After writing all this I remember that even in this sense the Make Your own Adventure, story itself contains a beginning middle and an end…. the end being your own death.

Yes, I am fully aware that it is week three of the semester and I’m yet to post on my blog….I’m now going to proceed to make pathetic excuses  that attempt to hide my own laziness. By acknowledging this character pitfall, I’m halfway to addressing its detrimental effect on my life, right?

My technophobia and inability to control a computer has played somewhat of a role in my online inactivity, this is not really an excuse though seeing as though I could spend a mere few hours fiddling and I would be an expert at this stuff. On the other hand I have also had to come to terms with the fact that this is public which feeds my fear of failure. Once overcoming this fear, I will be resound to the fact there probably won’t be a grammar Nazi keen to destroy my happiness by critiquing a poorly structure sentence (similar to this one).
I hope that by posting this I may overcome my fear and that I might feel inclined to change my habits towards technology and so with that I shall start my binge blogging.