Looking back and looking forward

I still remember the feeling I had at the very beginning of this semester upon learning that I would have to build and post regularly to a blog.  And I can't say it was a good one.  But being made to leave one's comfort zone is always a good experience, and I was no exception.

At the start of the semester, I had had experience using the MLA format, but was certainly no fan of it.  But due to a semester of writing using it, last week I found myself dreaming that I wrote a facebook status... with in text citations and a works cited page.  This is just one of the ways that I've grown through blogging.
Another way would be that I'm simply more knowledgeable.  I've always had an interest in factoids, and this process of researching my blog themes has only added to my (hopefully) ever-growing mental reservoir of information.

I understand for some the idea of blogging for 16 weeks seems daunting, or even torturous, but looking back, it has been very rewarding.  This does not mean it's always been easy.  But sometimes the greatest things in life are those that are hardest to acquire.

It's a metaphor, cuz life is a road, you see?  Ah well, never mind...

I should like to continue with this blog, as seeing it end here (as I'm sure so many have) would be a shame.  Stylistically, I have been fairly satisfied with my posts so far, but in the future, I hope to see my style and format evolve as I reach farther and deeper into the world of communication.  Over time I may even begin to see a community develop to join me in my quest.  Who knows what the future will hold.
BONUS: Remember my post about Time Capsules? Well there was a recent time capsule opened in Oklahoma.  It was 100 years old, and you can read more about it here!

Communicating without a Community.

As some of you may know, and as others may understand, I have had a difficult time finding other bloggers who share my themes. 

If you've read any of my posts up until now, you may realize that the purpose of my blog is to research and discuss the mediums by which humans communicate.  Although my blog is far from exhaustive, I've tried to pull many different, sometimes seemingly unrelated topics together, to unite them under one banner.  Unfortunately, the more I researched my own topics, the more I realized I might be one of the only people online to connect these different subjects into a whole, and then blog about them.  This being the case, I will not be choosing other specific bloggers in a community as my sources, but rather I will focus on what I have done to create a community of my own (or what I could do to expand what I have started on into a larger community.)  

I will also be able to share methods and processes of research I used in finding my information, and share my difficulties and successes in this area. 

This has been quite an experience, but it’s not over yet!

As we begin to wrap up our blogs (with only a couple of posts left) I’d like to share with you s picture I found.  Although I had a difficult time finding other blogs discussing my themes, it was surprisingly easy to find some info-graphs which fit my blog almost perfectly.  This one has been my laptop desktop for a few weeks now: 

Taken from: http://www.biztechmagazine.com

It's rather small, so you may want to click the provided link for a larger version.

(One more note.  If you notice the URL for the website I got the picture from, it's a business website.  I found that the vast majority of Google hits when searching keywords relating to my blog such as "Communication" or even phrases such as "How humans communicate" resulted in business related communication; A very different kind topic!)