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Tragic Nine
The gist of it
- You subscribe to the Tragic Nine show (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 selected and 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 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.
Proof of concept
This test was done using actual scraping - the text needs massaging, yes.
Dammit. File is on the other computer.
Building blocks
The tragedy
The soap opera
Worldwide news
The algorithm