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.

We feel fine er vanedannende socialsoftware og kunstværk/metadata-garden med mange forskellige filtre/modes og grafiske visninger.
Selve teknologien virker måske lidt gammeldags og set før, men datagrundlaget gør forskellen. En slags grafisk Long Tail collaborative filter på blogosfæren, fantastisk!

Jeg vil have det på min iPod, når den engang får indbygget WiFi og widget-engine, hvis Microsoft ikke for engangs skyld kommer først med deres annoncerede iPod-killer til efteråret.

- Rasmus Lasthein