Mashing or Meshing?
ChiefTech has an interesting post about the recent Economist article on "Mash ups." "If you're interested in social software, then the idea of 'mashing' or 'mash-up' is an important concept to understand. The Economist provides an introduction and discussion of the future direction in social software mashing. They explain mashing as:
It seems to me that this is actually a manifestation of MESHING, of finding bridge points between disparate pieces to make a new "sense" of something.
'The term mash-up is borrowed from the world of music, where it refers to the unauthorised combination of the vocal from one song with the musical backing of another, usually from a completely different genre. Web mash-ups do the same sort of thing, combining websites to produce useful hybrid sites and illustrating the internet's underlying philosophy: that open standards allow and promote unexpected forms of innovation.'
I've mentioned a number of examples of social software mash-ups on this blog, including:
* The Katrine Information Map
* Foundcity"
In fact, this might be a very early community indicator, as mash/meshes point out areas of shared interest.
mashing, meshing, community_indicators
posted by Nancy White at 8:37 PM
2 Comments:
I find myself using the term "mashup" (or the variant "mashed up") quite a bit in discussions of convergent technologies. Remix culture is seeding our synapses pretty effectively...!
I think that mashing of music will be the first. Then mashing of other things that can be digitized - isn't this what geneticists are doing when they create hybrid spliced gene organisms
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