Seth Woodworth
- Seth(ish)

The Web Ecology Project is a research collective based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our agenda is applying quantitative social science to social media.

We released our first report June 02009, The Iranian Election on Twitter: The First Eighteen Days. In this report we analysed over two million tweets collected in a 19 day window during the events of the Iran election and subsiquent protests. This report, and all subsiquent reports have been released under a Creative Commons license.

As a part of Web Ecology, I write software to collect and analyse data from various social networks. As the systems administrator, I manage a cluster of GNU/Linux servers running postgres and mysql databases numbering in the hundreds of millions. I have also prepared qualitative analysis for published reports, produced research proposals and attended conferences representing Web Ecology.

Further research has been released exploring influence in social networks and competition among group consensus in online platforms to media acclaim. The Web Ecology Project is available for consultation and sponsored research.

I started my involvement with the OLPC project in 2005, trying to get involved in organizing and manging Open Educational Resourcs. I saw the XO laptop as an obvious method for delivering edual content with a permissive license.

YawnLog is a social sleep tracker originally built over a 24.5 hour hackathon. The app was launched with a hyperbolic press release on Feb 22nd 02009 and a plan to a throw a party if/when we hit 100 users. We wokeup to 200, things got silly from there.

We started getting press and links the day of launch, a solid review from Killer Startups, an article in ReadWriteWeb, an episode of the Chris Pirillo show, and a mention by the New York Times.

Development of the Ruby on Rails site continues and the user base is almost over 9000.

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I used to be a professional swordfighter.

My IMDB page.