Tweet Tributaries – Wiki Waters

Text analysis side project for aspiring developers, researchers, or startups. Construct novel apps to trawl Twitter’s tributaries or Wikipedia’s waters and DARPA may be interested.

• pocket search for Twitter using Bloom filters – efficient search engine for #hashtags, words, users in given timeline. May also yield results on which characters / words appear most often in which position, say in the public timeline via the API. Perhaps use in novel mobile app.

• monkey bot whose tweets are based on the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd entropy in Twitter’s public timeline. Provide content creation ideas &/or ‘perspective’ on Twitter / social media. Followers won’t be the same.

• article generator à la SCIgen using Wikipedia snapshots / database dumps. Beyond amusement…
  • Generate new Wikipedia articles, i.e., to seed creative thoughts on “what should I write about today”
  • Quality control – hmm, neutrality off – weird ‘philosophy’ distribution – someone gaming system?
  • Convert to WordPress plugin – ingest blog, generate raw ‘random’ article – post ideas – insights into ‘meta’ pages / categories ripe for writing – i.e., related post generator on steroids.

• article summarizer for Wikipedia – extension of article generator
  • Suggest knowledge via auto-summarizer, perhaps draft prologue for Wikibooks – &/or build semi-automated method of blending daily events with traditional encyclopedic articlese
  • Comparator, e.g., summary of pages pointing to Thomas Edison? Make page another tab to provide visitors more info, along with providing contributors quality control assistance
  • Extract the summarize pages – create an ‘parallel universe’ Wikipedia, where each page summary of the source page and pages that point to it. Provide cohesive ‘alternate’ view into Wikipedia

• random references, i.e., ‘idea soup’ inspirations for this post
  • Forest Road – River Walk – App Discovery – Dither Dancing
  • Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – YARPP – Michael Erlewine
  • Philosophy – Heraclitus – no man steps in same river twice…
  • Quantum Physics – Entanglement  - Uncertainty Principle
  • Wikipedia – The Wiki Game – Alex Clemesha
  • Unintentional plagiarism – Daniel Tenner
  • Silicon Dreams – R. W. Lucky

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