Wednesday 18 February 2009

How do you feel today?

Offering a beautifully crafted insight into the current state of human emotions, We Feel Fine, an exploration of human emotion, is a web based project by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. 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."

How do you feel today?

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