iambic9 - 10:37 am on Nov 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

I have to say... This is completely ridiculous. And I second pretty much every word of ergophobe's post above.

So now we're going to separate content into; Logic, Structure, Presentation, and Emotion? I shall be developer / psychiatrist.

Since writing began [insert date I didn't look up :) and tag to describe how I feel about that = sad, nonchalant], we have described, detected and interpreted emotion in written language based on the style of what's written and what we understand about ourselves and culture, and it works just fine. Adding blunt static tags that state "This is a happy sentence." seems to over simplify how we use language.

Of course this is not for, humans –it is for machines, and they'll need things simplified if they are going to be able to help us more with our decisions, it just this seems to be the lazy way to do it.

I suppose the upshot of this might be that my favourite decision engine will soon help me make a decisions based on what it knows will make me happy, or sad even!

– not keen.