User:Laurier Rochon/work/tragicnine

Tragic Nine

The gist of it

You subscribe to the Tragic Nine show (it's a soap opera newsletter)
I use a computer script to gather tragic news from around the world, extract the stories from it and transform it into a soap opera narrative.
Nine lines are sent to you by email just in time for your morning coffee
The next day, I use the last section of of the previous episode as the search criterion to gather news stories, and do the same. You are sent the next episode just in time for your morning coffee.
Same next day, and all other ones after.
You are absolutely hooked.

This test was done using actual scraping - the text needs massaging, yes.

Dammit. File is on the other computer.

The tragedy

The soap opera

Worldwide news

The algorithm