Some pointy-headed types in the Netherlands created a tool that analyzed the mood labels on LiveJournal posts over time; they started to find seasonal and other patterns, including:
* "Drunk" was used more on the weekends
* "Stressed" was used less in the summer and more towards the end of the year
* Valentines Day saw increases in both "flirty" and "lonely"
Nothing shocking, of course, but it just goes to show that blog behaviors reflect real-world influences.
Speaking of moods, Journals Project Manager Yoel writes in his blog that planning for Journals Release 6 (R6) has officially kicked off. Check out his blog for more details, but one of the things we're looking at getting done is the free-form moods field to supplement the existing moods drop-down, which you guys have been saying has had too few choices since, like, forever.
R6 will also get us mobile blogging (moblogging), a better AOL Pictures interface, and more stuff (including opening up the tagging beta to Internet Explorer users).
Plus, we're working on improved polls support -- right now, in beta, there is a polls test, but it's kind of ugly, since you need to fiddle around with the IFRAMES tags to get it to show up in your blog. With poll integration, you wouldn't have to worry about that -- it would be taken care of invisibly.
R6 is due in late May; Yoel, Susan, John, John, Holly and I will all be talking about it as we have more to talk about.
Anyway, since we were on the subject of moods, I asked a few of my AOL Editor cow-orkers to recreate a Journals mood for photo purposes:
Feel free to act out your own moods and share.
The new Guest Editor's picks are pending. Thanks -- Joe
Tags: cow orker, AOL Journals, moods, R6
13 comments:
Joe, thanks for all the info about R6! Do you happen to know what number release the new custom skins and CSS ability will be in?
~ Susan
http://journals.aol.com/njmom72/TheStrawberryPatch
never use those ,mood or listening too things, no one cares really, LOL
~Julie
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Looks like you have a lot of fun in your offices - its okay, I wont tell your bosses. :P
Any way we can access the Betas for these before they GM - and have problems?
Ever thought of having your palm read, Joe? ;)
-Amanda
I was excited to be featured...and the mood thing has bugged me for the past two and a half years!
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Joe,
Wow your guys offices are way um....industrial looking. However with the more and more you guys are improving Journals I might wind up moving from Wordpress
http://shawnsblog.wordpress.com
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Claire -- What you refer to as PMT is usually called PMS over here.
Not that I would suggest such a thing affects Journalers entries. Even if such a thing were to exist, and I'm not saying it does. Thanks -- Joe
Shawn -- CC1 is a converted airplane hangar, so it's no wonder it looks "industrial" to you. -- Joe
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jamie is cute!
eli
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