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When people aren't stealing each other's intellectual property, stalking their friends, or trying to figure out ways to make money, the main thing people do on the internet is write about their feelings. And people on the internet have all sorts of feelings: Happy, sad, old, young, beautiful, ugly, ashamed – these are just a few of the 12 million internet-expressed feelings Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris have captured at We Feel Fine, using software that tracks personal blogs on the web's most popular blogging platforms.

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Every ten minutes since 2005, WFF's data collection engine has scoured sites like LiveJournal and Blogger for the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling." Once the software finds a mention of one of the phrases, it checks to see if the sentence also contains one of 5,000 pre-identified feelings. If it does, the sentence is copied and dropped into the WFF database where is becomes viewable in the WFF applet. The applet, literally a box full of animated human emotion, is pretty much the star of the show. Click any one of the thousands of the brightly colored emotional balls that are bouncing off the walls and you'll get to read about a blogger's feelings. Their findings, complete with mesmerizing pictures and graphs galore, are also featured in their new book We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion.

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