I looked at the Mashup of the Virginia Tech victims. The Mashup is entitled "Virginia Tech-In Memoriam", and it shows all of the pictures of the victims. A short biography of each person is included and what they did.
APIs: Google maps; Tags: Crime, Mapping. This Mashup was added the 28th of April, 2007.
It was sad to see the pictures and read about each person killed. The Mashup was very well done and well organized.
Regarding the Exercise about "Rollyo", it was hard to find articles dealing with privacy. The one article I read talks about anonymity and how some people get very upset when they read something but do not know who is writing the article. The person writing it thinks that librarians should embrace this so they can talk freely about things that they want to expose about librarianship in general. Using assumed names and not their real ones is critical and in some cases can save a person's life.
The article also states that free speech under a made up name is protected by the First Amendment.
Another writer talks about how some readers or critics make comments about what they read in a thoughtful way and make suggestions that make sense. Others, do not read the entire article, miss the message of what is being said and even make some insulting remarks without offering an alternative idea to what the writer is saying.
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