The blogosphere seems to have recently rediscovered the Enron Email Corpus, thanks to the publicity surrounding Trampoline Systems‘ newly released web application for exploring the Enron emails.

Exploring Enron offers a number of different views of the Enron data via:

1. Direct access to mailboxes of individual employees;
2. A search interface across the entire data set; and
3. A visual java applet for visually exploring the relationships and messages between users.

Also offered are trendy Web 2.0 compliant ‘tag clouds’ for sowing related people and topics when browsing the Enron messages. There is nothing particularly novel in any of this functionality, but Exploring Enron does offer a better-than-prototype quality application that has the potential to bring the Enron email data to the attention of a whole new non-research-oriented audience. In this sense, it continues in the same vein (while offering greater functionality) than other polished sites like Inboxer’s Enron Email site.

It will be interesting to see whether anything comes from this renewed attention from people who haven’t yet played with a large-scale email corpus.