The Dumpster: automatic romance analysis in the age of blogs
This is the kind of useless things i would like someone to pay me for doing. (of course it was done by some ubergeeks at google and IBM so it's probably not so easy... :) )
The project is a visualization of data collected from one zillion blogs during year 2005. In particular only posts about break-ups are selected, For each post the age and sex of the poster are noted.
What's interesting here, (more than the content, mostly written in some strange "youngspeak") is the really cool interface: moving bubbles, graphs, pixel images... You should try it.
Also, you can note that the majority of break-ups happens around the frightening November! :D
There's also a page with selected breakups and this is my favourite:
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Boo fucking hoo! My significant other broke up with me so now I'm going to overdose on Senekot and die shitting in my granny knickers. If I ever commited suicide, that's how I'd do it. And dressed like a clown. With ...
You can also read an interesting article by Lev Manovich on the subject here.























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