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?"

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Net zo nutteloos

[scenestar]

als blogs zelf.

babelfish my dutch.

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[Puutah_Mahdrey]

-ugh-

Someone try this tech on Slashdot Story Submission

[NRAdude]

I submit a story in truth, of a man arrested in Oklahoma City, OK, for killing a 10-year-old girl and planning to eat her flesh. He had everything from the tools to the knowhow, and not many are like this man as are the few earlier cannibals that were caught. The difference between this story and the others is that "man" kept his "blog" update until the day before he murdered the girl. If anyone wants to study the mind of a cannibal, just read his Blogspot page...FUTUREWORLDRULER My attempt to report this story: Man arrested for killing 10-year-old. He blogged. Thursday April 20, @07:04PM Rejected Stories like this are good preparation for those apolitical shills that want non-violent activities to be effected by unrelated violent activities; such as how someone else's Patriot Act in Wells Fargo violated my ability to Withdraw funds trusted to a CD (Time Account Maturity) at a time when commerce such as DRIVER LICENSE was irrelevant as a requirement; yet in violation of the contract, I am prevented from closing the account because of Patriot Act. I hear Sand Dollars on the southern California beach are put there by a God that believs in counterfeit life (twins, trippletes, etc). And on the 7th Day of Creation, God was arrested.