We feel fine….?
Jonathon Harris and Sep Kamvar’s website We Feel Fine is an excellent website. We often feel alone in the world, but this website shows how there are millions of people out there just like you, who share the same emotions as you do. It’s a prime example of how the world wide web unites the world.
We Feel Fine is a writing space where feelings are selected and not submitted. Sentences from blogs are scanned through a set of 5,000 feelings and if they are relevant are automatically added to the site. The authors distinguish feelings as being a sensation. It said there is about 15,000 to 20,000 feelings added every day. The beautiful thing about this website is there is no human involvement.
It’s been active for 4 years, and will continue to grow.
It’s overwhelming how many people are involved in this movement. It’s also beautiful because it’s a reflection of society on a world scale. We may randomly select a post about betrayel because we’ve recently experienced it, and we can find comfort in reading about other’s experiences. It not only puts our emotions into perspective, but connects us as a whole. It gives images to emotions, which makes these strangers feel more real; you can view age, gender, location, weather, art, feelings, insights, and faces.
This website it also beautifully constructed. It’s aesthetically pleasing and interesting to browse through. It’s also more than just a website, it’s a project like PostSecret. I used to visit this site a lot when I was younger, and even own one of the books. Like We Feel Fine, PostSecret is a way for people to connect together. Unlike PostSecret, however, We Feel Fine is like an experiment. You can see if location or even rain can affect happiness. I feel like this website is forward moving and has never been done like this before. Our feelings will be recorded over time, allowing us to see how our population changes emotionally. I thoroughly recommend this site.
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Tags: emotions, feelings, people, website, world
YOUTUBE
As the semester is coming to an end and we are filled with final papers and nights of studying we are all just wanting break to come faster and faster. When I was told that for homework we had to watch a video entitled, “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube” which was 55 minutes long I was not excited. I actually came up with a plan to watch it in 15 minute intervals. Once I began watching the video I sort of rolled my eyes at it but before I realized I was hooked to it and I watched it straight through the 55 minutes. This video is basically showing/ proving how Youtube, this online source of media, is completely changing the lives of people. There is a sense of connection these “Youtubers” have with each other. Some post videos to inspire, entertain, or even to talk about their lives. The audience is able to post feedback or even post a video in return. Millions of people post videos every day and millions of people watch them. The real question is, Why do care what people are posting? Why do we want to find out their backgrouds if we will never actually meet them?
As a student that uses Youtube occasionally for makeup tutorials or for school presentations/ projects I was not literate in what Youtube actually is and the capabilities it allows. Through watching this video I was able to see how people connect with each and inspire others through the “Free Hugs” video and even how people create music videos become superstars. This video was extremely informative and I think everyone who is interested in Youtube or everyone in general should watch this video because they will truly learn a lot. With that being said here’s the video! Enjoy.
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Tags: posts, video, Youtube
The future of technology is something worth discussing. Our imaginations are constantly accomplishing things we never knew we could. This is just a short video I found very interesting. It has some realistic, and humorous, inventions that we may see creeping up in the future. Enjoy!
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Emotions of the World
“We Feel Fine” is a website created by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar. It can be used interactively (which I highly recommend) and allows every individual to view how people around the world are feeling. Although I understand the mission/purpose of this website, to me, it seems a little creepy. “We Feel Fine” takes the sentence “i feel” or “I am feeling” from millions of blog posts all over the internet and focuses mainly on how they are feeling; what they wrote on their blog.
The website allows for individuals, like myself, to view everyone’s feelings on different things going on in their lives. Although, it does not go into specific detail as to why individuals are feeling this way, it seems to bring a sense of closeness to the individuals viewing them. I mean there are over 6 billion people in the world, and we have the opportunity to view how people are feeling. An individual from India is feeling “bad” and one from Nevada is feeling “inspired”. Where else can you receive this information? It gives us, as people and humans, more of an insight into the emotions of other beings. Emotions of the World.
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Good Luck, Chalkboard chat
To go along with my last post, I didn’t know I wanted to switch until probably two weeks ago. I like how are blog name is chalkboard chat but I will not be using such an item with a Journalism degree. Oh well. I hope teaching works out for you, I really do. I cannot hang. I do not like how the program is set up, but that is just my opinion. Good Luck!
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from education to journalism..what a switch!!
So I definitely made up my mind about switching majors. Some of my family, however, does not agree with this decision. I keep telling them that it is my choice and I want to be happy. So Journalism it is. What do you think about that?
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The Internet in our Daily Lives
Stephen Weiswasser of ABC once said “You aren’t going to turn passive consumers into active trollers on the internet.” and apparently Weiswasser has never met the consumers of the US. It’s absolutely insane the amount of “trolling” individuals do on the internet on a day to day basis. It actually is quite nerve-wracking to know that people use the internet in replacement of actual face to face communication.
One thing that really intrigues me is that Weiswasser said individuals will not turn from passive consumers into active trollers and I think that is downright false. I mean, take a look at Black Friday. For most people, this should be yet another National Holiday. We, the American people, have been passive consumers for awhile and until recent years we were, but now the internet has allowed us to become these “active trollers” Weiswasser uses to define us.
1 comment 12/01/2009
Children Abroad
For the past few years I have made a promise to myself that I would go abroad at some point and work in a third world county in their schools. It’s finding time to do this that is difficult, but while going through MSNBC’s website, I found this article about children. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34045311/ns/health-infectious_diseases/
Not only does it make me want to go that much more, but I want to stay there longer and ensure that they don’t have to worry about things like that.
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Facebook song
During class this week, we talked about Facebook and how it is our avatar. This avatar is constantly online to represent ourselves in the virtual world. Below is a video that is called “Facebook Song”. I found it funny how it related to our class discussion with pictures, friends, adn the information you share with yourself.
1 comment 11/22/2009
Tags: avatar, facebook, twtf09
Twitter and Elementary Schools?
With all this talk about twitter I was wondering if children in elementary school would use it. I know young children are beginning to use computer technology more and more in the classroom why not use twitter? I found a website named ‘Twitter for Teachers’ ,where it gives ways teachers can use twitter in the classroom. This website gives eight project ideas such as historic tweets, book lists, and even have tweet pals! They want to incorporate the children into tweeting by tweeting about books in 140 characters or tweeting with children from other schools. But the question is should twitter have a verification of age? Should children in elementary school really use twitter? When you think about it, when children tweet to children from other schools it is sort of like writing a letter. I personally think it is a great start for children to use technology because they don’t have to type a lot to be involved. But the downside is children seeing words or phrases they shouldn’t see? Who will monitor what they are looking at?
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Tags: classroom, teacher, tweeting, twitter
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