Blogbot is a software agent in development that generates experimental graphic novels based on text harvested from web blogs.
Blogbot crawls the web and takes snapshots of web blogs related to a user-specified theme. Then, based on the harvested text, a dynamic collage of images and strings is generated using a keyword-matching algorithm. Later versions will use computational linguistics approaches to derive meaning from text.
What I Did Last Summer is the first experimental graphic novel generated by blogbot, using cached versions of
My War (written by a U.S. soldier deployed in Iraq) and the now famous
Baghdad Blogger. The protagonists of
What I Did Last Summer are military and civilian units from the game Civilization 3.
[launch project]