TruCast is a method for management, by way of gathering, storing,
analyzing, tracking, sorting, determining the relevance of, visualizing,
and responding to all available consumer generated media. Some examples
of consumer generated media include web logs or "blogs", mobile phone
blogs or "mo-blogs", forums, electronic discussion messages, Usenet,
message boards, BBS emulating services, product review and discussion web
sites, online retail sites that support customer comments, social
networks, media repositories, and digital libraries. Any web hosted
system for the persistent public storage of human commentary is a
potential target for this method. The system is comprised of a
coordinated software and hardware system designed to perform management,
collection, storage, analysis, workflow, visualization, and response
tasks upon this media. This system permits a unified interface to manage,
target, and accelerate interactions within this space, facilitating
public relations, marketing, advertising, consumer outreach, political
debate, and other modes of directed discourse.