Every writer could use a muse, sometimes. Photo: Ygor Oliveira/Flickr CC
You might think a roomful of monkeys could generate most of the blog posts you read.
But IBM Research has got it all down to a single program. Called Blog Muse, it generates topics for you to write about, based upon what audiences are asking for.
Blog muse isn’t an artificial brain. Rather than tapping that roomful of monkeys for raw material, however, it crowd-sources requests for stories from the naked apes in your community. (Read the paper about Blog Muse, which is being presented at computer conferences this winter and spring, below.)
IBMers Werner Geyer and Casey Dugan created Blog Muse.
Dugan studied at MIT, under the computer science giant, and Creative Commons founding director, Hal Abelson. She is working IBM’s Beehive Project, which aims to influence social networking behavior.
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