At 11:27 PM Friday 4/21/2006, Julia Thompson wrote:
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.
[end of exerpt]
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
The Bad Astronomy blog <<http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog>>
yesterday and today has several entries about the probe currently on
the way to Mercury, but doesn't use the word "retrograde" once . . .
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country
and two words have been added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that is a prayer and that
would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
(Someone asked me to change my .sig quote back, so I did.)
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