Week 8
2. Write about the Mashup you found on your blog.
My Week 8 blog entry on Mashups: http://oilmoney.priceofoil.org/
Site by Greg Michalec and Skye Bender-deMoll for Oil Change International Authors of this mashup: (I was not sure about the authority of the information they placed on this mashup) Follow the Oil Money is an interactive tool that tracks the flow of oil money in US politics. Click on one of the search tools on the right to find out which companies are pumping their dirty oil money into politics, who is receiving it, and how it correlates to key climate, energy and war votes. You can also read our key findings. Their data seems to come from the Center for Responsive Politics.
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The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy. The Center conducts computer-based research on campaign finance issues for the news media, academics, activists, and the public at large. The Center’s work is aimed at creating a more educated voter, an involved citizenry, and a more responsive government.
Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. This mashup covers the Presidential candidates for 2008 that have accepted money from oil companies. It covers funding between oil companies and members of the U.S. Congress. You may look up data specific to your state representative or senator just by entering your zip code. Follow the oil money congressional voting on bills that benefit the petroleum industry versus the public interest is very informative. It allows one to find out how your member of Congress voted on key climate, energy and war legislation — and how the amount of oil money they accepted compares to their colleagues. Members of Congress Who Take More Money from Big Oil Vote More Often for Big Oil at the Expense of the Public Interest
In the site analysis of eleven key votes in the House and nine key votes in the Senate on climate, energy and the war in Iraq, a strong correlation between the tendency to vote for Big Oil (1) and increased amounts of money received from the oil industry was found.
• Overall, House and Senate members who voted for Big Oil took almost four times more oil money (2, 3) than those who voted in favor of the public interest. In the House, members who voted for Big Oil accepted almost four times more oil money (4) than those who voted in the public interest. In the Senate, they received 2.6 times more oil money.
I was not sure about the validity of the information presented. It could be just the opinion of the authors, but I tend to believe what they are saying about the Congress and oil companies.
- I am taking you to the “Explore Searchrolls” page to just search Rollyo. Type “librarianblogs” into the search box. Done
- Click the librarianblogs Searchroll. This is a Searchroll that will search select librarian blogs. Done
- Search for “privacy” Done
Browse the results and write something about what these bloggers said about privacy in your blog.
I enjoyed the librarianblog on “Digital Reference.” The reference librarian was listening to library podcast commuting to work. She commented that she wished she could multi-task and listen while reading a book at the same time. I am sure some could read and listen to podcast music. Listening to someone’s voice and reading at the same time would be impossible for me. She joined a librarians blog and was thrilled to find that joining the network might lead to making new friends in LibraryLand. Although she spends a lot of time online doing IM, using chat tools like Chatango, posting to blogs, reading blogs, contributing to wikis, etc., and have established a number of online friendships this way, she finds nothing beats actually meeting online friends in person. My conclusion is that a busy librarian will have to be very organized to participate in the web 2.0 social networking tools and find innovative ways of using them for communication and education.
- Advanced (Optional): Visit Rollyo http://www.rollyo.com/, and do the following:
- Create Custom Searchroll that will search Web sites of your choice. I am going to custom search Osteopathic web sites and label it “Osteopathic Resource”.
- Make newly created Searchroll publicly accessible
- Post link to Searchroll in your blog My Searchroll is Osteopathic Resource
http://www.rollyo.com/search.html?q=osteopathic&site=www.ostmed-dr.com&sid=370373
