it's pretty cool to click through. you basically go to the webpage and open the applet. from there you can click on the various parts and see individual sentences that people have written, or pictures, or look at distributions of the feelings based on mood, gender, geography, etc. the website also has information on the project itself and the various pieces of the applet.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.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day.
it's a really interesting project. for how impersonal the internet can be or seem to be, this really humanizes it. you can click on any dot in "madness" and catch a glimpse into that person's life. what a creative way to bring it all together. it's very likely that things i have written have been pulled into the database. it's kind of like the post secret blog, but more granular, if that makes sense. some are a lot deeper than others, some are dirty, some are funny, some are sad. definitely worth checking out.
