As doing a real-life community as small small world does, my online documentary communities ‘Lomo’ had more problems than theirs, although the outcome was the same – smelling like roses.

One of the biggest issues I had was getting interviews completed by people I hadn’t met in person. I sent questions by email, but got only a few responses. I think some people didn’t reply because they probably couldn’t trust a faceless interviewer and an outsider to their world. Being new to the Lomo community, I haven’t yet built a relationship that people can trust. However, I did get some great responses and positive feedback from others, and also the shop owners were very helpful (except one that wouldn’t allow me to record their voice).

Building a website is not as easy as I thought. I have been exposed to Dreamweaver, but haven’t had the opportunity or the reason to master it. So I have spent many hours researching how to do technical things that weren’t taught in any classes in Transient Spaces, but found in websites and other tutorials. And even the tutorials are sometimes hard to follow, or might not be specific to my needs. And even though we are not being marked on the technical aspects of our online doco, having the story of the community presented aesthetically pleasing to the audience is going to give me better respect in the community I am presenting. Furthermore, being a published website for the world to see, obviously I don’t want to have a site full of faults.

More? Yes, there is more! My ipod froze after transferring  information from my home iMac to the school’s iMac. Then while doing this blog entry, after writing it all, and saving it, the whole page just disappeared! (So this is part 2!)

But even with all the problems that might be experienced doing all these things, it is good to learn these things to make sure next time they don’t happen again!

 
Take a look at some images I used one of lomo’s cameras–SuperSampler at my Flickr.