We Feel Fine

I think Jonathon Harris did good job promoting the project through his talk, but I myself find it to be a little pointless. While it is an interesting concept, I don't think you're finding out how the world is really feeling (and I also don't know why you would want to know). This may be fun and interesting for a short while, but in the long run, I don't see this being useful in any way. On the other hand, the system of pulling a keyword and its context out of a blog is a very interesting idea. It could be put to use in other, more helpful, ways. Off the top of my head...I can't think of anything...but it seems useful! Well, say you are a company that wants to hear your customers' opinions on your latest product. You could use the WeFeelFine system to search the world's blogs for the product name, pulling out what people have said about it. With this you could then update your product to suit your customer's wants. I think this would be great, because not everyone who has an idea for a product will voice it to the company, but they may do so on their blog.