From today's indispensible Humanist listserv, a posting by Dr John Lavagnino, Senior Lecturer in Humanities Computing, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, about the appearance of simple text-analysis political sites like Speechwars in the US, analysing candidates' utterances.

Earlier this summer, I blogged the use of TAPoR tools by Canadian academics, Geoffrey Rockwell and Stefan Sinclair, to compare speeches by Obama and the controversial pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

With our own federal election on the horizon, Canadian leaders' text analysis, anyone?