Read my write-up and listen to the audio of David Hiller’s Q&A at USC’s Annenberg School for Communication, posted at LAist.
If you’re afeared to comment there, go ahead and lay it on down here.
How Does it Feel?
To better understand the Web 2.0 world, one must be in touch with the specific feelings across online content-generating demographics at a particular point in time and place.
Enter WeFeelFine.org, the excellent real-time visualization of the above, created by Internet artist Jonathan Harris and Google personalization tech Sep Kamvar.
Basically, WeFeelFine aggregates and searches the blogosphere for phrases like ‘I feel…’ or ‘I am feeling…’ One of 5,000 predefined feelings is associated with each post and the demographic attributes are tagged on. Their mission statement describes an “artwork authored by everyone”:
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, 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? What are the most representative feelings of female New Yorkers in their 20s? What do people feel right now in Baghdad? What were people feeling on Valentine’s Day? Which are the happiest cities in the world? The saddest? And so on.
We’d love to hear about any other new and up & coming online tools for understanding audience, culture, society or just having fun.
Bill Gates, Chad Hurley & Web 2.0-ers at Davos 2007
There’s an unbelievable amount of audio and video (in multiple languages) from the past week’s 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland available for viewing and download.
I just completed viewing the excellent panel below and highly recommend!
Discuss below. Full info on the panel after the jump.
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Hillary Clinton’s Foray Into Social Media
By turning to the public personally via Yahoo! Answers, Hillary Clinton exemplifies how emerging applications of new media can help to foster and strengthen participatory democracy.
Check out Clinton’s question and the tens of thousands (and counting) of user-submitted answers: “Based on your own family’s experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America?”
Read SearchEngineJournal’s blog post about this.