Well, that was great fun! Yesterday when I first started looking at the most popular mashups, I wasn't impressed. Especially when the blog rater I chose rated my blog a big zero! Who am I kidding? I knew it was going to get a zero, zilch, nada, big nothing rating. No one reads my blog (except for you instructors, of course), much less comments on it, and there are no ads...
Anyway, I tried Programmable Web today, and discovered Coverpop and Phylotaxis. Coverpop takes covers of books, magazines, seed packets, you name it, makes a mosaic and as you mouse over the lovely to behold poster, each individual bit comes up and you can read about it, or order it! Amazing! You could sit there all day, all week, years could pass!
And Phylotaxis makes keeping up with science news around the world a very fun endeavour indeed. You launch the program, and it allows you to manipulate the images towards science or culture (agitation is allowed, even encouraged), and then you can choose an image marble for perusal. Oh what fun!
I forwarded both these mashups to colleagues, so we could all share in the adventure.
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