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Software Tracks Blogosphere Mood Swings

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the manic-depressive dept.

holy_calamity writes "Dutch researchers have figured out a way to measure the mood swings of the blogosphere. It can pick up peaks of flirtiness from bloggers around Valentine's Day and drunkenness at weekends, the plan is to create a search engine that returns the prevailing mood in the blogosphere about a topic. Companies are already interested in using it to track consumer confidence. What's the mood of Slashdot on this one?"

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  1. Repulsed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Blog is not a word.