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Software Tracks Blogosphere Mood Swings
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?"
From whiney to really pissed off?
The blogosphere is female? Oh wait, we're on our way to understanding it. Nevermind then.
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Disregarding the above blabber, this software sounds so flippin' cool. I've always thought about the overall mood of people, and if there's relation between it and a certain period of time. Like a website that simply asks "Are you happy right now?" or "Are you sad right now?" Very useful information! *gazes up at sky*
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
The software, called MoodViews, was created by Gilad Mishne and colleagues at Amsterdam University, The Netherlands. It tracks about 10 million blogs hosted by the US service LiveJournal.
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Monday - Mood: Emo
Tuesday - Mood: Emo
Wednesday - Mood: Emo
FTA: On Valentine's Day, there is spike in the numbers of bloggers who use the labels "loved" or "flirty", but also an increase in the number who report feeling "lonely".
So let me get this straight... all this to discover that people either think about their relationships or lack or relationships on Valentines Day...
This is the ultimate geek software. "What is this strange thing... emotion... I'll build a software program to explain it to me."
FanFictionRecs.net
userMood=random(3); switch(userMood) { case 1: user="Depressed"; break; case 2: user="Drunk"; break; case 3: user="Happy" break; } return 0; On another note, I thought most companies didn't like their users blogging.
Was a yellow-green now looks like its changing to a deep purple.
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Better not blog that too bodly in your blog or the blogerati are going to get a coupla of pipe-hitting bloggers to get blog evil on your ass. Blog.
d00d, it's only thursday. you should feel "flirty and lonely" today not drunk and merry. you GODDAMN OUTLIER, remove yourself from the blogosphere or you will spoil our sales pitch to Google.
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That green slime had it coming.
"Geeky"
There I go pissing karma away again....
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Just as useless, and as unprovable. Next, specialized computer technology to detect the color underwear most bloggers wear?
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
Whats next? podcastosphere? TrendytechwordO'sphere?
I've found thier top-secret code:
Mood of LiveJournal: angsty
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Thats interesting.. it shows a spike for 'horny' followed a few hours later by a spike for 'depressed' which I presume means all those horny people didn't get laid again..
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