From the Willamette Week
Wed. 10-12-06
WeFeelFine.org, online since May, has been accumulating millions of emotions from blogs around the world since August 2005.
Designed by Brooklyn artist Jonathan Harris and Bay Area Google guru Sepander Kamvar, the WeFeelFine project searches the Net every few minutes for iterations of the ubiquitous online diary phrase "I feel."
When the site finds an emotion, it records an entire sentence and then catalogs the feeling by type. If the sentence reads as a caption to a photograph, the picture is also taken into the system. Overall, the site uploads an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 new emotions from six continents per day.
Due to the open platform of blogs, WeFeelFine.org is able to extract a large amount of amount of demograhic information about its authors. Automatically, the site's program organizes the data it gleans into a particle system. As soon as a viewer accesses the site, a deluge of dots jitterbugs across the computer screen. The color, shape and size of each confetti-colored particle indicates what type of emotion is inside it.
A particle can be opened and explored by clicking on it - the unique feeling of an individual and a link to the blog source are thus revealed. This project is impressive, and this site is unique and gets a hold of you if you click around a bit and figure it out.
Check out this Willy Week story about WeFeelFine.org. I dont think you will soon forget it if you do.
Not sure if you will allow this but will you tell people about my website: My1Hope.com
My website http://www.my1hope.com was originally designed for people throughout the world to share hopeful words--however, women started posting things of concern and before I realized what was happening, it became a place where women could share words of encouragement. The site is 60-days old... and thousands of people (mostly women) have posted words of encouragement that range from... Domestic Abuse (Physical, Sexual, and Mental) to struggles of being molested/raped as a child... Long story short it is a place of hope... or a vessel to reach others and let them know they are not alone...in their struggle.
Therefore, I am asking the Online Community to give 30 seconds of their life and write something that might help someone else... Once you go to the site? Click the Stars (You will B Pleasantly Surprized).
http://www.my1hope.com
Thanks
G Thomas
Posted by: GThomas | February 23, 2007 at 02:42 AM