Cupcakes and Organized Chaos...

In an attempt to get ideas about a first birthday party decor, I hopped on Flickr to see what I could find. My search returned some amazing pictures such as these cupcakes and farm cake. Just browsing through images of childrens parties gave me ideas such as making my own sesame street cupcakes and setting up an ice cream bar. Flickr came in good use when trying to see what options I had. But I also noticed the tags already associated with each picture. Some made sense but others not so much. For example, one tag was "mmf" for a cupcake. Now what is "mmf"? Maybe people should put a little more thought into tags? Just a thought. Digg is another Web 2.0 place to go to cehck out what hot and whats not. People can "digg" a site and when more people digg the site, it rises to the top of the page. So basically you can see what people are into that day. For people who enjoy baking cupcakes, cutlery, and other party ideas, I found an awesome blog. Its "http://cupcakesandcutlery.blogspot.com/" Check it out. Some of the images are amazing!

On another note, not know what RSS feeds really were, I did some searching and found the following. RSS can stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or RDF Site Summary based on who you ask. I like the first one. It’s basically a standard format for sharing content. The content can be news articles, podcasts, blogs, video links, etc. As you may be able to tell, I don’t subscribe to an RSS feeds (that I know of). But when thinking about RSS feeds, the question arises of how much information is too much. Not being a subscriber, I would guess that 5-8 feeds would be plenty but apparently people end up subscribing to as many as 50!!! What are people doing with that many feeds? I would not have time to actually read all of these. In general terms though, we definitely are at a time when mass amounts of information is loaded upon us everyday…there has to be a better way of managing it and taking in what we really need. I found some additional info about RSS but wont go into detail…I think someone in class is going to talk about RSS and I don’t want to step on his/her feet:)