This very well might be the most interesting and inspiring online project anyone has done in a very, very long time. We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale throughout the blogosphere. Every few minutes their system searches the world’s newest blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”, and when it finds a phrase, it records the full sentence up to the period and identifies all the feelings expressed within the sentence (sadness, happy, depressed, etc). The age, gender, location and local weather conditions are also recorded. The depth of the presentation and user interface here is absolutely amazing, and a gorgeous execution. Around 15-20,000 new feelings are added to the database every day, there are currently 3.3 million feelings from over 833,000 people. The findings are just mind boggling and really quite fun to read. The picture he represents ‘madness‘, each ball representing a feeling, and each color corresponding the tone of that feeling. Check out their mission statement for more information– genius, pure genius.

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John Tuesday, 11.27.07 @ 8:28 pm

Thi is really cool! If you would like to find out more Johnathan Harris, one of the creators, did a talk at the 2007 TED conference. You can podcast videos of these talks on iTunes and his is one of the better ones. He talked about We Feel Fine and also some of his other projects like Universe. Check them out.


Katherine Tuesday, 02.19.08 @ 3:30 pm

I enjoyed this very much, Im not a “blogger” but I just had to post a comment about this. I saw it last semester in my Psych class, and has stuck with me ever since. Keep up the good feelings!




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