I found this in the wiki about mashups. It helped me understand the term better.

Mashup ecosystem poised to explode by ZDNet's David Berlind -- As one of the co-organizers of Mashup Camp, I'm getting a lot of inquiries via email and from the press about what mashups are and why they're getting so much buzz. Invariably, my response begins by evoking their memory of another technology ecosystem that exploded through the stratosphere just after exiting from its embryonic phase [...]

A political tool

Blocked web siteA growing use for the blogsphere the voices against oppression.

An interesting articleDiscussing the attempts to prevent certain blogs in Saudi Arabia.

For me this is an exciting turn of events. It is the READ / WRITE web at its best.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Social Bookmarking

What is good for the goose is good for the gander. Social Bookmarking is a useful tool, which like all tools has its place. As a collaborative tool it is very friendly and truly lends itself to that end. I think it does need a moderator in order to keep a shared site cleaned up and organized.

I must admit that I am still perplexed by folksonomy to my way way of understandingthings it still presents a unorganized array of information. Perhaps because I am a non native of this technology.

TOOLS

Blogs, Bloglines, FURL, SAMS, somanychoices not enough time. I am beginnig to feel like this is all getting out of control. TOO many new tools, new accounts. My head is spinning. Having difficulty organizingeach one. I need to sit andwrite a list down of what each toolcan purportedly do and list uses I think I can use them for. Otherwise for myself I feel that I will be treading the intellectual waters of these communication tools.