Sunday, April 23, 2006

The world's mood swings, through blogs


Moodviews reveals patterns that follow on weekly, monthly and even yearly cycles. For example, the label "drunk" becomes increasingly popular each weekend. The label "stressed" appears less during summer months and more towards the end of each year, perhaps because of end-of-year work deadlines or the stress of visiting in-laws.

The full report is here. On a related note, the world seems to be in a mood to blog. This is what David Sifry, Technorati's CEO, has to say:

Technorati currently tracks 35.3 Million weblogs, and the blogosphere we track continues to double about every 6 months. [...]

The blogosphere is over 60 times bigger than it was only 3 years ago.

New blog creation continues to grow. Technorati currently tracks over 75,000 new weblogs created every day, which means that on average, a new weblog is created every second of every day - and 19.4 million bloggers (55%) are still posting 3 months after their blogs are created. That's an increase both absolute and relative terms over just 3 months ago, when only 50.5% or 13.7 million blogs were active. In other words, even though there's a reasonable amount of tire-kicking going on, blogging continues to grow as a habitual activity.

Thanks to Chugs for both the links.

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