Where Do We Belong (Midterm Reflection Post)

So to examine what I have so far, here's the index of my posts as of right now:

• About Myself (intro post)
• Syntax of Moby Dick and the Internet (syntax of Moby Dick and how that relates to today's digital syntax)
• Classifying Literature and Blogs (the different classifications/labels that apply to Moby Dick and the written word in general)
• Avatars of Moby Dick (looking at the persona of Ishmael, the many genres Moby Dick fits with, and how this all relates to the avatars we create for ourselves on the internet)
• Crowdsourcing with Moby Dick (how people are using crowdsourcing to sponsor Moby Dick)
• Catching Our Moby Dicks of the Internet (discussing long tail effects and the isolation vs community we find online)
• Which Character are You? (discussing personas of the characters in Moby Dick and how they would be avatars of people in this class/entering digital culture)
• Spiraling into Academic Blogging (discussing the spiral metaphor and the class' next steps in blogging)
• Digital Culture in the LDS Church (how the church approaches the advantages of the internet)

I think a lot of my posts relate to the people behind the post. This theme is especially pointed out in "Which Character are You?," "Avatars of Moby Dick," and the second paragraph of "Catching Our Moby Dicks of the Internet." I've even mentioned in plenty of comments on other people's blogs and in Google+ updates how people use the internet and crowdsourcing in ways to promote their work. I commented in this post asking how scholarly blogs will find a place in the internet, a Google+ update talking about how this video found its success on the internet, commented here how the LDS Church has found ways to utilize the internet, two more comments here and here thinking of everyday people behind academic posts giving credible information, and so on.

Needless to say, I'm a bit more focused on what the person behind the screen has to say, and how to effectively get out there through the proper avenues online. We talked in September about Kompoz, Galaxy Zoo, mormon.org, Wattpad and dozens more websites available for crowdsourcing, for getting out there. But with so many options, it's difficult to decide which avenue would be right for you, and how to be recognized as a credible blogger, or musician, or cinematographer. In addition to that, what characteristics and goals will put one person into the Youtube vortex and another in the Vine world for example? Blogger vs reviewer? Ultimately I suppose I'm asking this: where do people entering the digital world belong in the digital world?