MacResearch

Mr. Norman Su, of the Department of Informatics, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine will be started an OpenMacGrid project very soon, titled: Tagging Behaviors of Bloggers. A brief project abstract appears below. The OpenMacGrid continues to be a valuable resource to MacResearchers all over the globe. The Xgrid is continuing to function stably at a total capacity of about 2.0 Tera Hz, with about 50% of this grid capacity available for use at any given time.

Tagging has become a favored "buzzword" of Web 2.0 enthusiasts.
However, we believe that whether or not tagging is in widespread use
is unknown and merits further investigation. This project focuses on
the tagging behaviors of bloggers. The MacResearch.org Xgrid is being
used to collect and analyze a large quantity of randomly sampled blogs
that have tags. We seek to identify not only how people use tags, but
to also see how tagging behaviors vary over time. For example, do
bloggers increase their usage of tags per blog entry over time? Does
the complexity of tag words changes over time? Do bloggers with
similar tags also have similar behaviors of tagging over time? Why is
it that some bloggers stop tagging? These temporal aspects of tagging
on an individual blogger basis is a key component of our research.
Because of the large corpus of blogging text we seek to fetch, the
Xgrid project is an ideal medium to efficiently fetch and analyze the
textual tagging data.

Again, our thanks to the generous Mac users out there, who have made this project successful through a donation of their Mac's idle computing power. Let your Macs keep crunching!

For more information about the OpenMacGrid, please visit this webpage.