http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn9025-software-tracks-mood-swings-of-blogosphere.html
Beginning of article:
Software that tracks mood swings across the 'blogosphere' and pinpoints
the events behind them could provide more insightful ways to search and
analyse the web, researchers say.
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.
"I noticed that blog posts on LiveJournal have mood labels attached,"
Mishne says. "We started to collect this information and noticed trends in
different moods over time."
About 250,000 new LiveJournal posts are created every day and roughly
150,000 of these include a label for one of hundreds of different moods.
Moodviews keeps track of these labels and generates a graph, revealing
emotions shifts across all LiveJournal blogs over time.
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I wonder if it notes all the bitching about Mercury being retrograde?
Julia
who doesn't understand all the bitching about Mercury being retrograde,
but sees it in a few friends' blogs, especially in the comments of a
couple of them
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