The ECOresearch Network has just released a new Web analysis system to track the candidates’ performance on the campaign trail. Based on its Technorati authority, your Web site was included in a sample of 1000 popular blogs on political issues. Our site compares the blog articles with the Web sites of 50 environmental organizations, the Fortune 1000, and international media from the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Processing these sites yields more than 800,000 documents each week.Weekly statistics reveal regional differences and contrast the perceptions of different stakeholders. Besides tracking recent developments, users can also cast their vote for their preferred candidate.

http://www.ecoresearch.net/election2008

An automated process identifies attention by counting references to a candidate. It measures sentiment towards the candidate by looking for positive and negative expressions that co-occur with these references. Keyword lists reflect the most important topics associated with the candidate. Interactive visualizations allow a closer examination of the gathered data. Information landscapes, geographic maps, ontology graphs and tag clouds help understand complex semantic relationships.

We hope that the US Election 2008 Web Monitor will prove to be a valuable resource, and would greatly appreciate it if you would make your readers aware of this new Web site. A 6-minute screencast at http://www.ecoresearch.net/election2008/download demonstrates the major components. Please e-mail me if you have further questions or suggestions for extending the system.

Best regards, Arno

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Prof. Arno Scharl
Department of New Media Technology
MODUL University Vienna
Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Vienna, Austria
(e) ecoresearch@modul.ac.at
(w) http://www.modul.ac.at/nmt/
(w) http://www.ecoresearch.net/
(w) http://www.geospatialweb.com/
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