So today I had this idea for a little mini site that parses twitter updates, called I Could Be Anything.
I Could Be Anything monitors the Twitter public timeline and looks for messages that can be appended to the words “I am”.
Back when I was doing my degree, I used to create alot of work that involved typography and poetry, so this was a fun little site to build. I played around alot with how to filter out certain stop words (he, she, etc), and punctuation marks, also I discovered that typically if a sentence fragment has more than four words between “the” and a punctuation mark, it won’t make sense when appeneded to “I am”.
Anyways, this might all seem pretty mundane, but it makes for great research. Twitter provides unlimited data for me to work with, and whenever I have time, I’ll continue tweaking and trying to perfect the filters.
great shit. just gotta filter out verbs better and it would be perfect!
Great …. This represents another step in your efforts in manupilating the English grammar to produce semi-unique content.
Even I am working on a ‘re-writer’ which does more than just simple synonym replacement.
pretty simplistic, perhaps a tweme like dynamic subpage would add depth?
Nice domain too!
uW