Templates

template based works

Mad Libs - phrasal template word game

News and reports

• This News-Writing Bot Is Now Free for Everyone Wired

Artybollocks Generator

• https://artybollocks.com/

Spam

• Narratives of Deception - PDF booklet

Words Made Flesh Florian Cramer - Chapter 3: Computation and Fragmentation

• Cut ups

Uncreative Writing - Kenneth Goldsmith what is considered literary creation? Is a traffic report a literary creation?

• Goldsmith works: http://www.ubu.com/contemp/goldsmith/index.html
• Documentary: Sucking on Words http://www.ubu.com/film/goldsmith_sucking.html

Markov Chains

What are Markov Chains

python install PyMarkovChain

install PyMarkovChain Python library

sudo pip install PyMarkovChain

if you dont have pip (python package manager) install it:

• (debian/ubuntu)

  sudo aptitude install python-pip

• (mac)

  brew install python-pip

Integration with HTML,CSS

• HTML can provide structure to templates
• CSS can provide (variable) style
• WeasyPrint can generate PDFs and PNGS from HTML and CSS, and can be use as a Python library