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"Astonishing and brilliant." -- New York magazine

"A mesmerizing visual experiment." -- Reuters

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In this dazzling exploration of contemporary human feelings, digital whiz kids Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris use their computer programs to peer into the inner lives of millions, constructing a vast and deep portrait of our collective emotional landscape. Armed with custom software that scours the English-speaking world's new Internet blog posts every minute, hunting down the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling," the authors have collected over 12 million feelings since 2005, amassing an ever-growing database of human emotion that adds more than 10,000 new feelings a day. Drawing from this massive real-world stockpile of found sentiment, We Feel Fine: An Almanac of Human Emotion presents the best of the best -- the euphoria, the despair, the passion, the dreams, and the desires that make us human. At turns touching and thought-provoking, humorous and heartbreaking, We Feel Fine combines the words and pictures of total strangers to explore every corner of the human experience. Packed with personal photos, scientific observations, statistical infographics, and countless candid vignettes from ordinary people, We Feel Fine is a visual, fiercely intelligent, endlessly engrossing crash course in the secrets of human emotion. Are men or women happier? Does rainy weather affect how we feel? Is beauty the bridge between happiness and negativity? How do our emotions change as we age? What causes depression? What's sexy? What's normal? What's human? We Feel Fine finally provides a way to answer these questions that is both quantitative and anecdotal, putting individual stories into a larger context and showing the stories behind the statistics -- or as the authors like to say, "bringing life to statistics and statistics to life." With lush, colorful spreads devoted to 50 feelings, 13 cities, 10 topics, 6 holidays,5 age groups, 4 weather conditions, and 2 genders, We Feel Fine explores our emotions from every angle, providing insights into and examples of each. Equal parts pop culture and psychology, computer science and conceptual art, sociology and storytelling, We Feel Fine is no ordinary book -- with thousands of authors from all over the world sharing their uncensored emotions, it is a radical experiment in mass authorship, merging the online and offline worlds to create an indispensable handbook for anyone interested in what it's like to be human.

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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner; 1 edition (December 1, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1439116830
  • ISBN-13: 978-1439116838
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 9.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Book! Very different from its web counterpart, but equally entertaining (and moving)., December 10, 2009
By Lily B "Lily" (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
I just picked up a copy of this book after seeing it at Barnes and Noble. A friend had sent me a link to the website back in 2006, I recognized the name and so was immediately curious. Visit [...] to see the original project that this book is based on - the first time I saw it I spent 2 hours browsing through the chaos and peeking into people's personal lives.


The book is a completely different experience than the website with more differences than similarities, but just as fascinating as its web incarnation. Like with the website the first time I saw it I have become addicted to this book. The largest factor that sets the book apart from the website is the incredible amount of statistical analysis that the authors provide you with. Instead of just reading a feeling, the authors tell you how frequently that feeling is felt, who most commonly feels it and why.

They also break down feelings by location, date, tell you what feelings most commonly occur with each other. How feelings most commonly change as people age and tons of other interesting observations.


The book is also comprised of people's personal "uncensored" photography. Some are better than others, all are from the internet so quality isn't great, but each photo is paired with a sentence from the same blog post where the photo came from. The combination is powerful and it's amazing to see these people and also read how they feel. It reminded me of PostSecret.


This book makes a great coffee table/pop psychology book. In its 288 pages there is tons to discover. It is also an incredibly unique and impressive project; one that your friends will be happy you turned them on to.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Keeps pulling me back in, December 9, 2009
In an age where we are surrounded by social networks and blogs and Twitter, it can be overwhelming to try to learn something from them. Well, after reading this book I think I have found a good place to jump in for many, and for many others I've found a kind of documentary of blogosphere to this point.

The book We Feel Fine is derived off of a pretty impressive website that was developed by the creators of the book Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris. The website goes through millions of blogs every day and picks out any sentence or phrase that starts with 'I feel' or 'I'm feeling' and then adds them to a database.

After four years of collecting data Kamvar and Harris have compiled this book. When I first got it last week I spent a fair amount of time giving it a once through, but the strange thing is how much in the last couple of days I have been using it as a reference text. I say reference because not only does the book deal with a flurry of emotions, but it categorizes them and then analyzes them. Each emotion is bordered with all kinds of data associated with it. What are the circumstances that cause this feeling? What is the most common weather that accompanies this feeling? What other feelings are related to it?

Now, every time I find myself feeling a particular emotion I pick this up from my coffee table. I want to know why I feel what I feel, which is why I think really does a good job in attracting different audiences. On one hand you have people who will enjoy it for the design aspects and the personal, saddening, or funny combination of pictures and feelings. And on the other hand you have people who will want to know more of the the how and the why more than the what, in which case there is the data. Of course there is nothing wrong with enjoying both :).

When all is said and done this is a great text. I find myself coming back to it over and over again to learn more about myself and look forward opportunities to share it with friends. I think more than anything that keeps me picking it up again is that even though it is not hooked up to the net, I feel myself coming closer to the online community the book represents.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautifully done and surprisingly thought-provoking, December 10, 2009
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Having been a fan of the We Feel Fine website for some time, I have to admit that I was skeptical about how well it could translate to print. So much of what I loved about the website was its interactivity, and that's obviously not something that can be preserved in a print format (yet). Part of me also wondered if the premise itself - surveying and analyzing the blogosphere to extract meta-observations about emotion - would seem as interesting when extracted from its natural environment (the Internet).

I'm happy to say that this book shattered my fears about it! It's a pretty thorough compendium of human feelings, with enough interesting facts and figures in it to piece together a college anthropology thesis, but it also has the stunningly beautiful presentation of a high-class coffee table book (eye candy AND brain candy! How about that?) I particularly love the extra pages at the back that highlight an assortment of other interesting observations, such as the correlation between certain emotions and certain world events. The authors pulled things from the data that I never would have considered, leading me into some really surprising trains of thought.

I highly recommend this book, especially if you're a design nerd like me!
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