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Friday, April 21, 2006
5:28:00 PM EDT
Hearing Mozart, Requiem, Dies Irae
There was an interesting article today linked from Slashdot.org about mood swings in the big ole sphere o' blogs.
Some pointy-headed types in the Netherlands created a tool that analyzed the mood labels on LiveJournal posts over time; they started to find seasonal and other patterns, including:
* "Drunk" was used more on the weekends
* "Stressed" was used less in the summer and more towards the end of the year
* Valentines Day saw increases in both "flirty" and "lonely"
Nothing shocking, of course, but it just goes to show that blog behaviors reflect real-world influences.
Speaking of moods, Journals Project Manager Yoel writes in his blog that planning for Journals Release 6 (R6) has officially kicked off. Check out his blog for more details, but one of the things we're looking at getting done is the free-form moods field to supplement the existing moods drop-down, which you guys have been saying has had too few choices since, like, forever.
R6 will also get us mobile blogging (moblogging), a better AOL Pictures interface, and more stuff (including opening up the tagging beta to Internet Explorer users).
Plus, we're working on improved polls support -- right now, in beta, there is a polls test, but it's kind of ugly, since you need to fiddle around with the IFRAMES tags to get it to show up in your blog. With poll integration, you wouldn't have to worry about that -- it would be taken care of invisibly.
R6 is due in late May; Yoel, Susan, John, John, Holly and I will all be talking about it as we have more to talk about.
Anyway, since we were on the subject of moods, I asked a few of my AOL Editor cow-orkers to recreate a Journals mood for photo purposes:
Feel free to act out your own moods and share.
The new Guest Editor's picks are pending. Thanks -- Joe
Tags: cow orker, AOL Journals, moods, R6
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5:28:00 PM EDT
Hearing Mozart, Requiem, Dies Irae
Blog Mood Swings (and Introducing R6)
Some pointy-headed types in the Netherlands created a tool that analyzed the mood labels on LiveJournal posts over time; they started to find seasonal and other patterns, including:
* "Drunk" was used more on the weekends
* "Stressed" was used less in the summer and more towards the end of the year
* Valentines Day saw increases in both "flirty" and "lonely"
Nothing shocking, of course, but it just goes to show that blog behaviors reflect real-world influences.
Speaking of moods, Journals Project Manager Yoel writes in his blog that planning for Journals Release 6 (R6) has officially kicked off. Check out his blog for more details, but one of the things we're looking at getting done is the free-form moods field to supplement the existing moods drop-down, which you guys have been saying has had too few choices since, like, forever.
R6 will also get us mobile blogging (moblogging), a better AOL Pictures interface, and more stuff (including opening up the tagging beta to Internet Explorer users).
Plus, we're working on improved polls support -- right now, in beta, there is a polls test, but it's kind of ugly, since you need to fiddle around with the IFRAMES tags to get it to show up in your blog. With poll integration, you wouldn't have to worry about that -- it would be taken care of invisibly.
R6 is due in late May; Yoel, Susan, John, John, Holly and I will all be talking about it as we have more to talk about.
Anyway, since we were on the subject of moods, I asked a few of my AOL Editor cow-orkers to recreate a Journals mood for photo purposes:
Feel free to act out your own moods and share.
The new Guest Editor's picks are pending. Thanks -- Joe
Tags: cow orker, AOL Journals, moods, R6
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Man, that Jamie has some great hair!
http://journals.aol.com/knemeth00/TheLushFactor/ -
Shawn -- CC1 is a converted airplane hangar, so it's no wonder it looks "industrial" to you. -- Joe
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Claire -- What you refer to as PMT is usually called PMS over here.
Not that I would suggest such a thing affects Journalers entries. Even if such a thing were to exist, and I'm not saying it does. Thanks -- Joe -
4/30/06 3:50 PM
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