Don’t know for sure yet, but TechWeb reports on a very nifty research invention to predict the American Idol winner:
… Read the restKatharine McPhee and Taylor Hicks will face the last round of competition in the fifth "American Idol" tonight (Tuesday, May 23), with the winner announced Wednesday.
My Datamining colleague Matt Hurst, from Nielsen BuzzMetrics’ R&D team, shares with us a nice roundup of events and scientific papers presented at the 3rd International Workshop on the Weblogging Ecosystem, held yesterday at the WWW Conference in Edinburgh.… Read the rest
The AP reports:
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LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. (AP) — High school students are going to be held accountable for what they post on blogs and on social-networking Web sites such as MySpace.com.
The board of Community High School District 128 voted unanimously on Monday to require that all students participating in extracurricular activities sign a pledge agreeing that evidence of "illegal or inappropriate" behavior posted on the Internet could be grounds for disciplinary action.
Bill Tancer from Hitwise uses search query trend data to predict who will remain standing at the end of this week’s season finale of American Idol. He picks Taylor Hicks.
Based on trend data of blog mentions and my own highly anectodal content analysis, I also predict that Taylor Hicks will win.… Read the rest
Relationships–whether physical or in the virtual world–are the fabric of life, and one inevitable fact in life and relationships is death. So it is natural that as the Internet and social media become more ingrained in people’s lives and identities, death and mourning will follow accordingly.… Read the rest
