memetracker

For those of you either interested in deploying memetracker or currently using it, original developer Kyle Mathews has ceased development of it while he pursues his new startup venture. Due to the wonderful nature of open source software and the Drupal platform, it is possible for developers to continue what Kyle has started.

Hi, I'm very interested in this project. Can you please take a moment to describe the pace of development and overall health of this project? Is there still a lot of mojo behind it?

I'm going to install this module and mess with it some. Thanks for your work on this.

http://www.polymeme.com/node/66483

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Hi there folks,

I'm sure many of us are excited about the potential of the Memetracker module (I definitely am!).

Memetracker currently has some Python requirements, and many Drupal folks are not accustomed to installing Python/ Linux packages in general.
As a result, many of the issues in the Memetracker issue queue are about getting the Python packages installed correctly.
To help with this, I've written a document that's purely about installing the Python prerequisites:

I ran across a new memetracker built on Drupal/OpenCalais and custom code. It looks very cool. Check it out at Polymeme.com

They're tracking some 25,000 blogs and apparently running them all through OpenCalias as part of the process for finding "memes" along with some human editorial touch.

The creator of polymeme writes more about the site on his blog:
http://evgenymorozov.com/blog/?p=397

I've pushed up an alpha release of memetracker to cvs and created a dev release. This is not production ready code. In fact the only thing impressive about the code is that it works at all and does something vaguely resembling what memetrackers are supposed to do.
Link to original proposal

How to install memetracker:

I just took this screenshot. Most everything is still broken but I've arrived to the point where the memetracker will detect memes and spit them out to the screen. Probably tomorrow morning I'll be pushing my first release up to CVS.

Scott Hatfield (mentor), Fabiano Sant'Ana (mentor), and Kyle Mathews (GSoC student) chatted on skype today discussing the memetracker module.

V1 of UML Drawing
V2 of UML Drawing - added color to Drupal specific code, added database access layer, added content_array parameter to memetracker->get_memes()

Round 1 of this proposal can be found here.

I'm putting up a rough draft of my proposal for review. This, I repeat is a rough draft, so there are some obvious flaws and missing pieces.