Back in my days as a student at Crazy Go Nuts University, a couple of us got wise and kept a Radio Shack police scanner radio handy so we’d know if our parties were about to be busted. That same maverick spirit in the use of technology for partying lives on: this Register article talks about UK teens using Google Earth’s satellite photos to crash other people’s swimming pools.
I’ve already heard it three times at Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto: “I need to take a closer look at your tool.” You always hear this at tech conferences and pornos.
Tim Bray gets the “Tweet of the Day” award for this gem: “Microsoft’s SOA strategy embraces UML. It’s not necrophilia if you’re both dead.”
My thanks to the folks at Yahoo! for loaning me part of their “Code Monkey” costume.
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Sentiment Analysis and Sarcasm
Kevin Marks just commented on Twitter to me about sentiment analysis: “I remember a series of people showing us “sentiment analysis” code when I was at Technorati – turns out it doesn’t do sarcasm”
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Sentiment Analysis
At the “Measuring Success in a Web 2.0 World” Orion panel at Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto, the term “Sentiment Analysis” came up. It’s a new term to me, but luckily Wikipedia has a (short) page on the topic.
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Quote of the Day
“I’m a Vista user. I’m also a Prozac user now.” — Kevin Ryan at the Search Engine Strategies 2008 Toronto conference just now.