A page with demonstrator versions of tools for analyzing the moods in blogs is available now at http:///www.moodviews.com/. For now, Moodgrapher and Moodteller are two of the tools available online. Moodsignals and Moodmapper will follow later this fall.

Listening to ''Simmer Down'', by Johnny Clarke (Play Count: 3)

This year's CLEF workshop was an inspiring one. From my perspective, one the important development s is that CLEF is moving away from an almost exclusive focus on newspapers as the main corpus on which to do evaluation, to also include other types of textual data. Last year it was decided to do a pilot task on multilingual web retrieval, and this year we decided to set up a pilot for question answering against Wikipedia and a pilot on retrieval against blogs. Stay tuned.

Listening to ''6e Gnossienne'', by France Clidat (Play Count: 4)

We have one more vacancy for a research programmer. This is an 18-month position, for a project on question answering. The details are available at the faculty's vacancy site. If you want to know more, do get in touch with David Ahn or me.

Listening to ''Otis'', by The Durutti Column (Play Count: 41)

After a fatal crash of our old web server on Monday, a new one has been up and running since last night: thanks to Gilad, Jeroen, Stephan, and Valentin for helping out. All of the static pages have been restored, but not all demos are fully functional as of yet, although the mood related ones (Moodgrapher and Moodteller) are. The crash came at a very unfortunate time (they always do), with C|Net reporting on Moodgrapher just a few days before and our largest sponsor, NWO, contacting us on Thursday about using Moodgrapher for PR purposes.

Listening to ''Space Movement Section 1'', by Creation Rebel (Play Count: 13)

We have a vacancy for a scientific programmer. It's a three year position. Details are available at the faculty's vacancies site. Contact me for details.

Listening to ''Ten Dangerous Matches 4'', by Scientist (Play Count: 25)