Mashups

There are of course much more high-level uses for mashups than the example on my blog ... I got a sense of this from the Superpatron blog which is referred to by Desk with a view. I found the style of this blog (Superpatron, that is) somewhat irritatingly oblique (what's 103bees? What's Hit tail?), and I have what could be an endearingly stuffy disapproval of the name Steal this Library (which is also an irritatingly oblique website), but I can see how something like this RSS feed of new acquisitions combining Library of Congress SRU service (which is apparently some type of search protocol), Amazon book covers and xISBN data is a great synthesis of information from different sources (as far as I understand it).