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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?"

3 of 149 comments (clear)

  1. Blogosphere Mood by NitsujTPU · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My mood always turns sour when people refer to the "Blogosphere."

    I'll take a few fewer buzzwords a day, and call my Dr. next week to see if the situation improves.

  2. Re:Been there, done that. by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you trying to be funny? Getting a small group of people who speak english to and are willing to put up with voting / verification is in no way a representitive sample. Now if you went into their blog and determined their mood from the text, that might be cool.

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    Philosophy.
  3. Slashdot mood? by TechnoGuyRob · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There's almost 30 posts and only one of them has been modded up (once, to funny no less)? I think I can predict the mood of Slashdot about this:

    Indifferent

    Or as a LiveJournalist would say:

    like i don care man