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[edit] Basic Idea

This webpage will allow users to search keywords and see a timeline of what people have been saying about that topic, with links to examples. I currently have over 4000 blogs and over 120,000 posts in my database. Keywords will be searched for and then changes in surrounding words will be compared over time to create the timeline.

[edit] Design Process

I am currently mining data, trying to get a good list of blogs to get data from and have created the system which will check for new posts and add them to the master database.

I have a Timeline view working and a basic search feature up.

next steps:

create a histogram from historic data about how many blog posts are about the search query

create some other metrics to view in the graph and to search by. (# of 'positive' words, # of 'negitive' words)

allow users to post comments on different views and rate them. Interesting searches will appear on the front page

allow users to post new feeds to add to the database.

allow the algorithm to check feeds that have been unreachable in the past less often than good ones.

[edit] Relevent links

whatiswhat.dyndns.org [1]

inspiration: google zeitgeist [2]