Re: FLUXLIST: Headline Haiku

[Kamen Nedev]

These are really cool, Allan. I remember a similar series I did for a week last summer: but using the image captions of a daily newspaper during a week. The results were rather hilarious (hilarious in Spanish, that is). I wonder if one could build or embed a kind of RSS-parsing script into a website, and automate the process. It can be tricky (the results won't always work), but I suppose it is not impossible to implement the classic haiku structure in some _javascript_, pull in the headlines from, say, Google News (or, even better: ArtForum!), parsing them to determine line lenghts, and then selecting the right ones, and have a neat line of daily headline haikus greeting the visitors to your site... Still, there's intervals which only a human (that's you, that is) can see. Best, Kamen On 28/04/2006, at 22:16, Allan Revich wrote: Headline:  April 28, 2006   Keating witnessed Snoop Prody suffers bad first day Name swap sparks satire     Allan Revich ------------------------------------ Kamen Nedev c/Pelayo Nº38, 5º Izda. 28004 Madrid España (+34) 649 77 80 37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://emitmedia.blogspot.com http://emit-es.blogspot.com http://emit.omweb.com