Exploring the 'Net

So, I've a few objectives for the course; the first is to say what my expectations of this Exploring the Internet course include. I expect to get a little more in-depth information regarding the web and what it has to offer; hopefully a bit of website creation will be thrown in for good measure. I'd like to create a website to showcase my work in photography.

I don't have any blogs that I follow; I occasionally read the Huffington Post blog, and might become interested in a link a friend posts on Facebook, but nothing I'm interested in enough to consistently check their posts.

As far as the topics that interest me, I'd say travel, digital photography, fiction writing, liberal politics, and horror tales would be of the most interest to me.

My previous experience with the Internet is pretty much the same as most Gen-Yers out there. I use Facebook, MySpace, occasionally Twitter; I maintain a photo site on Smugmug; I haven't purchased a CD in years (I download my music from iTunes and Amazon); I get my news, fashion advice, maps, schoolwork, and all sorts of other info from the web; I do a lot of my shopping online (the deals to be had are marvelous), and find that my life is sooooo much simpler thanks to Google. I access the web from my laptop and my smartphone, and absolutely love it. What a marvelous world we live in.