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September 09, 2005
Steer Clear of the Internet. It's Grumpy Today
Courtesy of CNET’s Missing Links blog, something called the Informatics Institute at the University of Amsterdam has developed a technique for taking the emotional temperature of…the Internet. The Moodgrapher currently scans the LiveJournal blog and reports on the emotional state of the bloggers. While the researchers behind Moodgrapher say that studying the “mood” of the Internet can predict mass behavior over time, we’re not so sure. Moodgrapher tracked how “distressed” the blog entries were after the London bombings in July (click on thumbnail for chart.) Not surprisingly, the predominately UK-based bloggers experienced a spike in their distress levels following these events. Hello? We could have predicted this without the Moodgrapher.
Posted by Cynthia Brumfield at September 9, 2005 09:26 AM
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