Check it out.\u00a0 I don’t know if it is the future of communications and literature.\u00a0 But it is certainly fascinating.\u00a0 It is literature, research, ethnography, technology, emotions, and crowd-sourced literature all rolled into one.<\/p>\n
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.<\/em><\/p>\nThe result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 – 20,000 new feelings per day. Using a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine’s Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd so with that, I’ll say this, hoping that at some point some of these nuggets are harvested by the We Feel Fine site and that my contribution adds to someone’s day and another person’s science.<\/p>\n
I feel good.\u00a0 At least today I feel that way.\u00a0 There have been many days in the past when I’ve felt bad.\u00a0 Perhaps even miserable.\u00a0 But today’s a good one.\u00a0 So far.\u00a0 You never know.\u00a0 I could be feeling crummy this afternoon.\u00a0 Something crazy could happen.\u00a0 I could remember something stupid and start feeling blue.\u00a0 Feelings are that way.\u00a0 Very capricious things those feelings are.\u00a0 But right now, I feel good.\u00a0 And the fact that I’m feeling good, feels good.<\/p>\n
Have a nice day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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That’s what my daughter said excitedly as she told me about her new english major courses at George Mason University.\u00a0 The excitement in her voice and the enthusiasm in her eyes made her impromptu presentation contagious.<\/p>\n