Before there was Twitter, there was the Bio Mapping project by Christian Nold. Participants were equipped with biometric sensors measuring their stress levels via galvanic skin response and asked to wander around the Mission District of San Francisco, annotating their feelings and experiences in real-time, in an effort to map physical responses to geographic locations around the city. Think of it as micro-blogging with automatic emoticon detection.
Maps of other cities are available here, here, here, and here.
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Random snippets: Got excited watching skateboarders / Dirty people were walking by and I was trying to dodge them / Peeing in the alley / I felt more electricity coming through the finger cuffs at points where I spoke with a person directly or when I touched a plant / A woman asked about my finger cuffs and wondered if it was some sort of weird iPod thing / Sidewalk Juice, stayed here for awhile / Went and met my boyfriend near Aquarius and got juice / Narrowly avoided a puddle of vomit / Out of the alley, Yes! / Enjoyed a moment with my girlfriend.