Last post

The semester is winding down, and so is the blog. This is the last one, and honestly, I'm excited to get back to my personal blog. So, I suppose I should wrap up things nice and tidy, but I've always been really bad at conclusions. I once wrote a 255 page novel (single spaced), and when I couldn't find a proper ending for it, I just quit. That should give you some idea as to how bad I really am at this sort of thing. So I'm not even going to try. We're just going to treat this blog post as any other, and when it's over, you'll just know ... It's over.

I never got the map thing with Caspio to work. I'll try again in class tomorrow, but after that, I'm devoting my time to writing a memo about everything I've done this semester. I suppose I'll start with the trip to Whiteville, Edna, the Whiteville Police Department, then expand to David Nobles and the sheriff's department. Then I'll go through my prototypes, from the two hard copies I made to the spreadsheet, the map, the Caspio database and the failed map of Caspio data. 

I don't know where the project will go from here. I think we went above what the newspapers wanted, and that makes me think a lot of the project won't ever be used. But that's OK. It was a learning process if nothing more. Rather than the focus being on what the website should look like, most of our focus ended up being on how to obtain records. The people at the paper seem to be OK with how they obtain records, and I doubt their processes will change. Had we been able to work more closely with reporters like Bob High, I think we would have started out ahead. We basically started from scratch, and that hurt us. We ran into a lot of problems with getting the records, and the website never actually developed. I hope that these newspapers one day develop a more useful website, but it's going to take more work than what we were able to do in 15 weeks. 

I sure hope my memo is more helpful than this post. It's a bit of a downer.