Week 5, 2012
Joensuu, Finland
After deciding to stick to this blog, one thing I want to achieve is to organize its posts. When I started boggling I was clueless of my own posts: how would they look like?, about what would I write?, which one will be my style?, etc. Consequently, the idea to organize posts was not even contemplated.
To my surprise but sometimes I require to find something I have posted and to find it is tricky. I am bad with keywords, writing titles, well I am not good on writing in general (as I have complain so much). Nevertheless, it will be useful to find a way to organize myself, and keep on using the technologies we profess are “good for learning”. So, for some time I have been thinking how to organize the blog, I did sketches, lists, but I haven’t implement a thing. However, as this spring I will be given some lectures and I want to use my blog as part of my memoir of this learning process then I need to organize my blog now.
In this weekend I put hand on organizing my blog. These are the steps I followed:
- I found a good link explaining the difference between category and tags.
- As I had been thinking in keywords for a long time now, so after the previous step I wrote a table with the keywords I though will be relevant.
- I went through my existent 167 posts and label them according to the table.
- While labeling I discover some keywords I should use which were no there, and others which I do not want to use in the future.
The process, besides to take time and energy, was actually productive in diverse ways:
- I research myself.
- I discover many blogs are only of bla, bla, bla, bla (~babbling). Seeking for comfort, I believe. I want those to be improve somehow.
- I saw myself over time. It is amazing to see how time passes by fast and we learn to think/walk/talk so slowly.
- It got some kind of “framework” for future blog activity.
- My research and my blog are extensions of me.
My blog is inspired on some mothers’ blogs. My research is kind of my abstract baby. It is clear for me that my abstract baby cannot be blog exactly the same way as mothers document the life of their offsprings. But both type of babies have a developing process, and trigger experiences that can be shared. Blogging is a way of sharing and documenting. Let’s see how it goes the 2012 wave of this blog!
The result of this work is in the following two lists: categories and tags.
PS. From now on, I do not think to review again as I did this time all the previous posts…. no time for it.
