6 Flickr Mashups

Where DO Internettists GET these ugly words? Mashup sounds like something a toddler does to its vegetables. I can see where it could be useful to a library's PR department because they add flash and dash to mere pictures and can be done on the cheap, a real advantage in this economy. If gets the masses in the building, online, or connecting to a database or something, that's all to the good. I'm also sure businesses could make use of the F&D to drag in a few more customers. The personal ones remind me of scrapbooking--the pictures and family memorabilia become secondary to the F&D. Since librarians are about the quality and ease of use of content, the F&D must be judiciously used or they will interfere with the content. I like the injunction on one of those sites to go and play. Well, if you know the rules of manipulating code, that's just ducky. If you just want something to do something, there are no ducks in the room. Still, for people who are interested enough to fiddle around with code, have the time, and have more patience with opaque instructions and technophiliac rah-rah than I do, it is has interesting possibilities.