ABSTRACT
The Internet is now an accepted form of discourse around the world on subjects ranging from the mundane to the serious. Web logs, chat rooms, and forums provide a new source of data on attitude diffusion and opinions to events across the world. In addition to providing valuable data for social science research, the Internet is allowing new forms of social and political behavior to occur. In this paper we present initial research on measuring the rate ofInternet activity to key events over time. We present measurements of stimulus-response temporal dynamics using open-source free web analysis tools.
