Okay, so I am addicted to TED Talks… And I came across this one that talks about a website/app called We Feel Fine. The site is an almost real time collective of human feelings that are collected from a number of blogs and displayed in a variety of ways. The engine scours the web every ten minutes and looks for the phrase “I feel” or “I am feeling” in the content, then saves the full sentence in the database. Each feeling is colour coded and referenced against a pre-existing list. If an image is found in the post, the image is also saved into the database.
You can navigate by image; clicking the image to discover the associated emotion attributed to that image, or by clicking little coloured microbe looking dots, that each reflect a thought or feeling. The amazing thing about this is that you can actually navigate through to these people’s blogs and connect with them.
I am so inspired by this. It has been a while since I have seen a website that impresses me as much as this one has. If you have a few minutes, seriously… Check it out. It is totally worth it.
Here are some interesting stats taken from their sit:
11,482,671 = TOTAL FEELINGS COLLECTED
2,122,893 = TOTAL UNIQUE PEOPLE
08.26.2005 = FIRST FEELING COLLECTED
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