Final thoughts

It’s been a fun ride, but now it’s coming to an end.

The Good

The Media Channels and platforms course certainly had a wide variety of content and I learnt a lot. What’s even better is that I became genuinely curious about many things that were new to me. Since every lesson had a different topic there was only so much we could cover, though many of the themes did overlap. Now I can say I have a basic understanding of a good variety of topics and it’ll be easier to do further research on my own. I’m delighted. 

Keeping up with the blog wasn’t always easy, but it was certainly worth it. Somehow I think I’ll even miss the practice of writing my weekly (or not so weekly) media stuff. I know there are many people who earn their living by producing content, for example by writing a blog, and twice as many people who don’t see that as a real job. Well it is one heck of a job and now I have experienced it first-hand.

..and the Bad

I chose Blogger because I thought it'd be easy since I've had a couple of blogs on this platform in the past. Turns out time had sugarcoated my memories but starting a new Blogger blog quickly reminded me of the truth. The user experience is terrible, there are countless weird bugs and modifying the look of the blog is an absolute horror. Also making the blog responsive is more a challenge than it seems at first glance. For example no one will see your embedded Youtube videos on mobile if you don't go to the post's HTML view editor and edit a certain class from the code. (For anyone who's interested, it's class="BLOG_video_class")

There are many articles on why Blogger sucks. For me it was a bad decision since I didn't have the time to put in a lot of effort in learning how to make things nice and pretty on a platform that I'm not going to use professionally, ever. So my blog ended up looking quite lame. If you want something free and neat go to Wix (or Wordpress.com, though I haven't tried that one myself so can't really vouch for it). But please don’t ever make a blog on Blogger. Just.. Don’t do it. If you already did, I'm sorry. I feel your pain.