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collective emotion stories: 2 news summaries

Web Apps
Keep Tabs on National Mood

They troll mountains of online data seeking economic indicators

Aug 18, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Web-based tools have become increasingly adept at measuring a critical economic indicator: the nation’s mood. Whereas old indicators were based on surveys, these applications sift through mountains of online data, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. TweetFeel, for example, looks for select words and emoticons on Twitter. Other systems do... More »

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Google • Internet • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • consumer confidence • emotion • Twitter • Jay-ZTV • collective emotion • Google Trends • Google Insights for Search • flu season • TweetFeel • Emotionr.com

(Newser) - The outpouring of grief over Michael Jackson’s death really has nothing to do with the singer, Hadley Freeman writes in the Guardian. Just look at him: “For the past 15 years, ever since the first child-abuse allegations,” Freeman writes, “he has been a figure of freakishness.... More »

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entertainment • music • Princess Diana • memorial • Michael Jackson • public figure • collective emotion • false emotion • Hadley Freeman

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