Mashups and API - Week 8

What can I say about Mashups? I really don't care for them and would probably not use them.
I found Quick.AS more useful than most. It allows you to use search commands and provided QuickLinks to several well known sites. Another one that I discovered was LazyLibrary. It limits all hits to book titles with less than 200 pages. It assumes that less than 200 pages equals concise and effective information. I have a problem with that conclusion since short is not always complete or better.

I liked Rollyo more and did find it useful in searching for librarianblogs and the topic of privacy.
The "shifted librarian" had an entry entitled - A Step in the Right Direction . It was regarding the Bush administration invasion of privacy using acquired database information. See additional information below:

"The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to slap restrictions on a controversial Pentagon data-mining program that critics say would amount to a domestic spying apparatus.

The vote represents an unusual triumph of privacy concerns over the Bush administration's arguments that the Pentagon's Total Information Awareness (TIA) program would be useful for national security. If fully implemented, TIA would link databases from sources such as credit card companies, medical insurers and motor vehicle agencies in hopes of snaring terrorists."