We Feel Fine

Jonathan Harris began collecting imaginary stories as a young boy, and now, he collects stories from the internet.

Taken from http://www.wefeelfine.org/ :

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.

Jonathan Harris gives a lecture at the TED conference here:



We Feel Fine can be viewed here.  It's definitely worth a visit.  Does this give us insight about the mood of the internet?  Of the planet?