Mashups are for music…
Another example (click on the 25 companies) of mashup term being perverted to mean some sort of geekoid web/RSS hybrid misc category.
AARGH!
STOP IT NOW! A mashup is a musical term, nothing to do with .NET and AJAX and AGRAJAZZ and the like.
Before I come slap, I mean mashup your head…oops…go find your own word, and your own mates without leaching on our cool factor. Go on.
We had it long enough with bootlegs with recording anoraks and moonshine makers sniffing round us dismissively. Now we’ve found our own term (via bastard pop), gerroff!
March 3rd, 2006 at 2:19 am
Dude. This has quite a lot to do with the GBAT score of the company. See this page here.
I think any company, including the one I work for should be -mashed- 3 points for abusing my favorite type of music.
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:01 am
bloglines = mash up? This is weird!
so then:
Google = Hit compilations
Microsoft = Kenny G
myspace = random generated noise
March 5th, 2006 at 7:48 am
you’re right on the Myspace - ever heard the Arctic Monkeys? There’s random generated noise if I ever heard it
March 8th, 2006 at 3:15 pm
While I agree that mash-ups for music is way cooler use of the term, my first exposure to the term mash-up was for the act of mashing site content together, so I think it’s more of a matter of which came first, the chicken or the egg.
But, Tim, you may recall in one of your 1 Year Anniversary shows reading a list called “Top 5 Canadian Songs for Mash-Up” or something and I seem to remember you wondering exactly what mash-up meant. I think you made some sort of joke about mashing Canadians or something. Then you said “I think they mean bootleg”…
I know I shouldn’t “poke the bear”…
March 8th, 2006 at 3:52 pm
you can ‘poke the bear’ all you like (fnar)
mashup (music) was first - check the Wikipedia entry for web mashups - only goes back to Feb 2005, and working in the industry I’ve not heard it til the end of last year with all the Web 2.0 bollocks. Whereas the term for music has roots back to 2001-2 or probably earlier.
Upto then the web-doobry they now wrongly label ‘mashups’ was called a ’strap-up’ or ‘lash-up’ I think. No not strap-on (bad bear! naughty bear!) after bootstraps etc, but that’s old-skool. Or just a plain ol’ hybrid maybe? Or ‘demo’!!!
The musical term was definitely around in 2003-4 because I called this podcast that in 2004 it was a recognised term which has become more prominent, and the term was interchangeable then, as I was labelling my MP3 mashups, as well genre: mashups back in 2003, and GYBO was using the term back in 2003 definitely, if not earlier.
The terms are interchangeable but it seems mashups is the newer (US-centric) more prominent ‘new skool’ term and bootlegs is more UK/Europe (old skool, usually way back) and Bastard pop is even older/more specific (usually those who were part of the scene back in 2001/2 or late 90s (?) tend to use that term in part/preference).
BTW I knew what mashup meant then, I was being ironic…:-D
March 12th, 2006 at 4:07 pm
Always informative, Tim.
And DIRTY. Love it.
(I’m the king of the web-doobry!)
March 15th, 2006 at 5:29 am
As if things weren’t bad enough, MC Hammer now has a blog.
http://expat-leo.blogspot.com/2006/03/apocalypse-mc-hammer-has-blog.html
Snoop Doggy Blog. Maybe we should all culture jam Flufff 2.0.. uh, I mean ‘Web 2.0′?