We Feel Fine is an artwork by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar, and it is truly worth exploring!

It is a huge database that collects ‘human emotions’, or one could better say expressions of human emotions, from weblogs all over the world. Every time the sentences “I feel” or “I am feeling” appear in a blog entry, the emotion (sad, happy, etc.) is identified by the system and saved along with all sorts of other data, for example the gender of the writer, his or her origin, even the local weather conditions. This is possible because blogs are largely constructed in standard ways.

On the website We Feel Fine people can explore the database in various ways, for example look at a number of different statistics (which is the happiest city in the world? How do people feel right now in New York? Do women feel happier than man?) and a gallery of weblog entries that were saved along with images.

“At it’s core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what’s on our blogs, what’s in our hearts, what’s in our minds.” (Jonathan Harris & Sep Kamvar)