communication. community. cognition.
Headlines, ripped straight from the Razr
From today’s New York Times:
Twitter has been described many ways. At its best, it has been called a revolutionary political tool and a low-cost marketing machine. At its worst, it has been dubbed a waste of time.
Now, two researchers are calling it a hedonimeter, a device that measures happiness.
Peter Sheridan Dodds and Christopher M. Danforth, a pair of statisticians from the University of Vermont, are hoping to harness the stream of messages flowing through the popular micro-blogging platform at any given moment to read public opinion and sentiment in real-time.
Sounds a bit similar in concept to a piece I wrote two years ago.
Yes, the application was an April Fools’ joke, but the concept isn’t.
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