PoliticalMashups

Mashups are created when information is taken out of one or more database/s and then integrated into a web site. This is done through what’s called a public interface or ‘API’ (or by RSS feeds, or by JavaScript). Some well-known examples are the Chicago Crime Map, Weatherbonk, and mappr.

I haven’t come across too many mashups in terms of political communication. There is a nice project from the University of Indiana called ‘Following the Dollars‘ that maps political contributions (put in 90210 if you can’t think of a US post code). Also, if you want to see an extensive list of mashup sites (and how to make them) check out ProgrammableWeb). If anyone knows of any poltical mashups, I would be really interested to hear about them.