I took a few minutes to play with the applications linked on the summize site
I liked Addictomatic - it essentially pools all the different types of searches together. im sure the techies among us could point to other (and maybe better ways of doing this) but this was pretty informative for me (even to see how many different ways of putting things on the net there exists. Would be worth someone finding (or doing a review) of the academic search engines like scholar, web of science etc., how fast are these moving?
http://addictomatic.com/
Twistori is interesting and you could see how this type of thing would have research applications to emotion researchers. They focus on basic emotions as well as thinking and belief.
http://twistori.com/
The basic summize search is interesting. I dont know how much has been done to use these as tracking tools in things like risk perception research. We are doing traditional style media monitoring for one of the projects and its pretty cumbersome (but as Martin pointed out likely to be representative of a bigger audience although I keep an open mind on this)
http://summize.com/
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One thing ive noted about through our stats counter is that everytime things like twitter are mentioned it gets a lot of hits and you can think of a few reasons for that. it might be worth posting a few things on the blog that techies could help us with.
Some research like this, using web-crawlers to extract information from mood annotated blog posts in order to outline daily mood patterns:
finding happiness
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