MashUps are one of those things I wish I had far more time for. I enjoy utilising what others have done but would really like to be able to do more of them myself. That said, I'm choosing not to do this week's challenge simply because after 6+ weeks of finding time to fit these activities in I'm still at a loss as to when that will be.
I like the idea of MashUps - not just of images but also of information and see the value of resources like LibWorm which take a search query and correlate rss fed data to answer it. That said, the query requires a degree of sophistication to get the right set of results (like any online search really). It's a flip from my stanadrd rss feeds which direct my searching and querying simply by the nature of the ebb and flow of information as I read through them. Obviously I'm more of an organic thinker (stream-of-consciousness) than structured.
On an RA note I'm curious about the rise of Literary mashups and the blending of established classic pieces of literature (biography/history) and obscure (and perhaps confronting) genres into mainstream (though fairly oddball) fiction - beyond the realms of Jasper Fforde and into the world of the bizarre with titles such as "Abraham Lincoln, vampire hunter" and "Mr Darcy, vampyre" - otherwise known as Literary monster mashups (as a subgenre no less!).
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