The rise in accessible information that has accompanied the arrival of the Internet has presented new challenges in harnessing this data. This phenomenon is commonly called "information overload", referring to the difficulty for an individual to process such large amounts of information using current means. The Mashing Texts project seeks to simplify this task by adopting principles of online mashups. It is in doing this that Mashing Texts looks to combine both the creation and exploration of resources into a single, cohesive system.
This is the original Mashing Texts proposal, headed by Geoffrey Rockwell in 2007. It outlines the fundamental principals and goals of the project.
PDF download.
