Johnathan Harris noticed we as a human race have a need to express ourselves. We all have gaps like religious gaps, race, gender, location, but we are all the same. He developed a program called I feel fine. This uses passive observation to go out and get sincere responses from people just living life. His program goes out and finds any phrase from blogs that has an I feel in it, and then gathers a photo and information about the person who posted this. The program then links to all these world post and makes them into clickable links for anyone to view. He is currently working on a new program called universe. This creates a mini universe around articles on the web that relate to other topics. Basically any topic on the web would have a mini universe of related information.
The most significant thing to me was when he showed the feel fine application. You click on a link and get a one sentence phrase on how someone was feeling at that moment. This was moving in a way. He does a good job of making the internet look like its living. In a way it is living, simply by what people are doing at that moment and what they are expressing.
Johnathan Harris Tedtalk Bio
http://www.ted.com/speakers/jonathan_harris.html
This gives a quick bio about him, and how he is in pursuit of the worlds living blog content.
Johnathan Harrios personal website
http://www.number27.org/
He did a great job of building a website full of information about what he does. Interestingly he mentions that he does not blog or twitter. He states that he does upload pictures from time to time.
Website Universe
http://universe.daylife.com/
This is his next project on the horizon. The universe of our internet.
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