I feel open source
I feel open source after attending the first ever nz open source awards last night. Stray Cinema was a finalist in the creative category, but the competition was stiff, and the prize went to Select Parks, an open source gaming project which looks pretty cool, check it out.
i feel open source.
now you may have come across We Feel Fine before "an exploration of human emotion, in six movements"? Their website describes it better than i could:
"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.
The result is a database of several million human feelings, increasing by 15,000 - 20,000 new feelings per day. sing a series of playful interfaces, the feelings can be searched and sorted across a number of demographic slices, offering responses to specific questions like: do Europeans feel sad more often than Americans? Do women feel fat more often than men? Does rainy weather affect how we feel?" etc etc
i've just done a search on their website. I asked how women my age in wellington (the city in which i live) were feeling today? no results! how about yesterday, nothing! so by writing this blog i hope to represent the women of wellington today. i wonder if their blog search engine will pick this up...you see i am feeling open source today.
By michelle, 4 years, 7 months ago