We Feel Fine
Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.
I remember discovering We Feel Fine back in 2005, and it blew my mind. Very creative and inspiring project. I am posting it here today because it has just as much—if not more—value today than it did 5 years ago. And really, to some people this site may be old hat, but it’s still important enough to give a shout-out to. You never know who might discover it today and become inspired to build the next great project tomorrow.
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