Moody - Tune-tagging by your mood...

The digital consumer is currently on the fast track to being inundated with so much content that it's impossible to know how to handle it. How do you find the right photo or song when your collections contain tens of thousands? The notion of "tagging" the files within those collections has caught on a bit - tag a photo with "vacation" and "family," for example, or a song as "alternative" and "90's," and you could do a simple text-based search to find items that match the categories. It's helpful, but one problem with the system is the cognitive leap from "what I feel like" to "words that describe what I feel like" - fuzzy feelings don't like being crammed into the narrow categories of clumsy words! Moody could be a solution for avoiding that extra step - it provides a graphical (and colorful) method for tagging your tunes, dodging the, well, dodgy transitions into and out of words. Look at the spectrum, and you have a good idea of how the song makes you feel without having to think of the words "happy" and "calm" - just see the color green (not the word "green!"), and it feels right. Heck, the language part of our brains works hard all day - when you're kicking back with some tunes, it wants to relax! This same concept could easily be applied to photos, and who knows, literature, movies, art? It also bears some similarity to a previously-posted mood-monitoring watch. Put together, these things may be the beginnings of "mood-logging!" Or "moodcasting?" Something like that...
[via Lifehacker]