http://www.wefeelfine.org/ : an exploration of human emotion, in six movements. This is how designers Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar described their interactive web application aimed at giving an aesthetically compelling look to dynamically changing data of users related to their emotions and feelings. From 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.). Furthermore, age, geneder and location of the author as well as the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written is saved and become part of this application…what is the web mood today?
