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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. Been there, done that. by XorNand · · Score: 5, Interesting


    This is old news. Just blogs? Bah! Color me unimpressed. I've already harnessed the power of the Internet to track the mood of the entire planet: http://www.howisyourday.com/

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  2. Can it detect the entire spectrum of moods? by koweja · · Score: 5, Funny

    From whiney to really pissed off?

  3. Tracking bad hair trends, too? by cno3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    Monday - Mood: Emo
    Tuesday - Mood: Emo
    Wednesday - Mood: Emo ...

  4. 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

  5. Website still up? by Chris_Jefferson · · Score: 5, Informative

    This can't be right.. the website is still up. Perhaps that is because no-one can find the link To the actual moodviews website.

    I can't decide if I should feel guilty for posting this..

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