Week 8: Mashups

Exercise 1: Here's a treasure Mashup called Spatialepidemiology and here's the link to it: http://programmableweb.com/mashup/spatialepidemiology.

Description: Provides mapping tools for the global epidemiology of infectious disease. Datasets are available to interrogate geographically allowing researchers to investigate the epidemiology, evolution and population biology of human and animal pathogens.

APIs: Google Maps

Exercise 2:

When I used Rollyo and searched for LibrarianBlogs on the "Explore Searchrolls' page, I received several familiar blogs. Then I found many interesting postings on several of these blogs on the topic of 'privacy". For example, the Shifted Librarian blog had a posting: "How Public Is your Privacy?" on May 30, 2007 http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/05/30/how_public_is_your_privacy.html

Here's another posting about "privacy": "google Ranked worst on Privacy Policy", which appeared June 15, 2007 on the LibrarianinBlack blog http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2007/06/google_ranked_w.html

Advanced (Optional):

I registered for an account in Rollyo and created a custom Searchroll called " ScienceBlogs" and here's the link: http://rollyo.com/janetspiller/scienceblogs/.

Thanks very much for teaching this web 2.0 course. I learned a wealth of information that I hope to use forever in my profession--if ever I land as a librarian somewhere on this planet.