The interface of WeFeelFine.org has some subtle references to the Sony Ad with the balls, but thankfully is nothing to do with it. In fact maybe I shouldn’t of even said that… but it was a first impression.

The above image is of the opening interface, named ‘madness’, which is rather apparent as emotions sourced from blogs are presented as a whirling mass of bouncing balls – with no gravitational pull – madness indeed. By clicking on one, you get to rollover and explore the feelings connected to that colour and ball – getting a snippet of the feeling associated and the location from which it has been sourced. By clicking through, the sentence from which it was sourced is diplayed and then you can view related imagery and then ultimately the blog.

From the creators or We Feel Fine:

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.)…

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…

You can explore the data through a variety of different interfaces… but ultimately you’re only really gonna get it, if you go play with We Feel Fine – get immersed, get shocked and feel a little.. but if you want to read my rantings – here they are:

The above interface allows the user to specify gender, location, weather, feelings that they wish to sample.. narrowing their view and exploration.

This is a sample of pictures from feelings in the last hour, again I can click through to the source and the feelings associated.

Another representation is a list of the feelings… just click on through.

Big respec to Hendo aka Aitch for the link via email today.