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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Re:Blogosphere Mood

[walmartshopper67]

Yeah I'm with you - tired of the buzzword crap. Why would anyone really care about the "blogosphere" to begin with - there is a reason these people have "blogs", because nobody will listen to them. It's worse than the tabloids. Why would I want the opinion of these people to begin with? Are they educated on a specific subject? Or, more likely, wannabe pundits? Btw, its a GODDAMN WEBPAGE, WEBSITE, SITE, not a "blog" or "weblog". It's the same damn thing with the same crappy layouts and the same crappy content. Need proof? You can "blog" on MySpace! Enough said.

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