Tracking the "mood" of the blogosphere

Dutch researchers from the NWO Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research have developed an application called MoodViews which tracks the mood of 2 million bloggers across the globe.

"Moodgrapher monitors the global mood of bloggers and converts the data into overview graphs. Moodteller uses language technology to predict the overall mood on the web, while Moodsignals records unusual peaks in mood levels. The software then uses search engine technology to find an explanation for these mood swings."

Several other applications are under development but you can already test the ones above on their website.

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Comments

[Mike Driehorst]

Cool tool. Does the MoodViews only track LiveJournal? It seems that it does. If so, I'm not sure how useful it would be, depending on how much stock one puts on LiveJournal users.
Mike

[Constantin Basturea]

Check also Gilad Mishne's list of publications on weblogs: http://staff.science.uva.nl/~gilad/publications.html

Good stuff! :)

[Philippe Borremans]

Mike, yes I think they only track LiveJournal but still, the concept is good.

Constantin,
Definitely good stuff by Gilad. Lot's to read there, thanks.