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I Feel OBSESSED

25 Nov 2008 Leave a Comment

by meganfinley in the internets

It’s a veritable catch-all for human emotions available online in awesome, bouncy, wiggly interactive displays. According to the website’s Mission statement this is what is happening- 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.). The 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.

screen shot from the website’s interface – all of those little click-able dots are human emotions

Basically it’s a nosy shut-in’s wet dream and I feel okay with that.