Final Required Blog Post

So, I have a confession to make. I haven't been entirely honest with you (my audience of 2) about the purpose of this blog and how it came to be. The truth is, it definitely was a required blog, and all of the posts were also required. Now that that weight is off my shoulders, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on the content of the blog because, well, it's required. Reflection has always been the hardest part of any composition process for me, and I'm sure this will be no exception. We've been asked (we is myself and other students in my class for the internet archaeologists that will inevitably  stumble upon this some day) to reflect on the posts we've made on our blogs and decide which posts best fit the categories of "professionalism, design, creativity, and people’s choice (as defined as a class)."

All of the posts I'm going to address will be able to be found under this one so long as the meaning of the word under or the default layout of this blog doesn't change, but I'll also be including links in case your scroll wheel or space bar is broken.

For professionalism, I'm going to go with my first blog post titled Smartphones and Social Media can position a class in the Real World. I'll pick that post because it's the least unprofessional, not that any posts are immediately unprofessional though. It was early in my blogging career, and my mind hadn't yet been corrupted with the notion that I can write something relevant and then ramble to get credit for the posts.

For design I'll have to settle on What Does Multimodal Even Meme? this one is mostly because of the fact that I designed something for the post. Though it may be small, I actually had to design that 1st class meme you'll see if you click that link (or scroll down just a tiny bit, it's just below this one). I suppose that makes it my most well designed post. I'm not sure I'm doing this right, but who cares?

As far as creativity, for me the most obvious answer is Getting Drunk on Writing. I felt pretty creative just rambling on, pouring my actions out as words in a blog post in real time to create the post. It's probably technically the least creative in that aspect, because it required such a small amount of actual creativity and was just a documenting of movement in its own creation, but again, who cares if I'm doing this wrong?

After all this self reflection, we've (same we as before, please try to pay attention) been tasked with picking a blog that best satisfies the categories established by the people (this people is the aforementioned we). I'm going to go with Maggie's Blog for obvious reasons if you just click that link (this time you can't just scroll down, turns out that's an entirely different website). Most important in my decision making process was voice, and I couldn't really care less about the other categories the people established (though her blog performs exceptionally by those standards as well). Other categories the people set are categories that could probably be achieved well by a program designed to use relevant images or have "engaging media" and post a ton of videos, but voice is probably not something computers are at the level of creating on their own. So, before society is overrun by Skynet, go read Maggie's blog and experience some human voice.

Also, images are required, so here's the first entirely original image to be posted on this blog. It's a screenshot of the blog. I hope you enjoy it.