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December 15, 2002

Mood of the Blogosphere

I'm not sure if this is a rehash of an old idea, an improvement to it, or something totally useless, but here goes:

j-mo talks about wanting her blog to immediately express her mood. Lots of people have various icons on their entries on Live Journal and other places to show current mood.

It always seems that some days are bad mood days for lots of people. This time of year often has a lot of those days.

The idea of measuring this is a little like imood and their "mood of the Internet" - but that is a single service that you have to register for. I don't really think that scales very well. It seems like an open system that all could use for whoever they wanted to would be better.

What I'm thinking about is a standard XML tag that could be read by the various RSS aggregators and such (read Scripting News and the links there if you are interested in more about this).

This could also be worked into blogging software - set your mood and it sets the styles or whatever you want automatically.

Anyone could them compile a "mood" index for the part of the world that interested them - ranging from just their friends to everyone listed in one of the big indexes.

There is at least one use for this - it would be a good reminder on days when you are down to see that you are not the only one.

There is some stuff at imood.org that might be a step in this direction, but I'm not sure.

I just don't think it is likely that one company can get everyone to sign up.

I keep rethinking this entry so it may eventually go away, or something, but here it is.

Posted by markj at December 15, 2002 11:57 AM

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i've thought about this concept for a while, and even thrown it around in conversation before...i'm just not a big enough "geek" to understand the complexities of the components that you are referring to, but i would help promote, that's for sure! good luck with your thoughts... ;-) and btw, i'm still in a crappy mood. lol

Posted by: jen at December 15, 2002 08:16 PM

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