December 2010
2 posts
Latest News Through Wikipedia - Wikipedians are...
People have long predicted the demise of traditional news media and the rise of the citizen journalists. Various initiatives have tried to create new media outlets on the Web, Blog, and Twitter powered by creative swarms of hobby journalists - but none of them has been a breakthrough success so far. Well, it turns out that there is such a citizen Web site, venerable old Wikipedia! In a...
How Much Are People Smiling in the US, Germany,...
Who are happier, people in Switzerland, in Germany, or in the US? To answer this question, I looked at the use of smiley’s in Twitter tweets – smileys are those emoticons used to express one’s emotions like :) smile :D big grin :( sad, frown :P sticking the tongue out, “raspberry” My hypothesis is that the larger the fraction of happy smileys :) and :D in all tweets containing emoticons is,...
