Friday, February 27, 2009

WARNING - Will make you Hungry!

Whenever a day like valentines day, or an anniversary comes around, I typically like to do something very sweet for my significant other. Of course, rather than buying jewelry or an Ipod which isn't that "meaningful", and other than the fact that I'm poor, I tend to rather do something memorable and meaningful, such as cooking dinner. I'm no professional cook, but I like to cook try and cook fancy meals at the least, and a website i usually check for the best recipes (which is "coincidentally" related to New media) is FoodGawker.



White Chocolate Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies

Oreo Brownie

Food Gawker, according to their website,

"...is a gallery where food bloggers can showcase their food and photography skills. It's a place for you to discover new sites, dishes, recipes and ingredients to inspire your own cooking..."

This community of food connoisseurs and photographers link their pictures and recipes straight from their own blogs or a website. And just like other community sites, you must first create a user name to submit recipes. There are pages and pages of recipes which or organized just like a blog in reverse chronological order. They have everything from entrées to desserts and recipes from different countries such as France and India. And the pictures are very amazing to look at and it always makes me hungry =)



Sausage and Spinach Stuffed Shells

Sleek Macaroni and Cheese

So if you're into cooking or you need ideas for a dinner you should definitely check out this site. and if you're interested in cooking dinner for me. I'm a Capricorn and I love long walks on the beach. lol....

New Media and Food (Wiki)?

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

What is New Media?

Wiki's, Blogs, Facebook, etc. These are examples of the types of new media that is popular right now. While there is no exclusive definition for New media, it is the term to describe an emerging development of things that are digital, computerized and networked. A similar term to New Media is the term Web 2.0. Web 2.0 is using the internet's capabilities to enhance creativity of how material and information circulates the web. New media and Web 2.0 share the characteristics of having a network and dynamic.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Term Research Project Description

Topic: How Organizations use second life to run activities and events.

Description: Many well known colleges and organizations use second life to host some kind of event. Retailers such as American Apparel, Dell, Best Buy and many more have a virtual store inside second life. The makers of Second Life, Linden Labs works with colleges and organizations to teach them how to become familiar with the benefits of Second Life's virtual world.

If you don't know what Second Life is: http://secondlife.com/whatis/

Welcome!



ONE DAY THE VIRTUAL WORLD SHALL BE MINE!!!!!!




AHOY MATE!