idea: death blog

By anders pearson 12 Dec 2001

here’s an idea for someone with more free time than me who wants something to do: the “death blog”. start a weblog that highlights the deaths of famous people. maybe branch out into bizarre deaths and other death related stuff on “slow news days”. the research part could probably be automated pretty easily with a perl script or two to scour the RSS feeds of various news sites looking for death/obituary related keywords.

<p>i remember kamden  once mentioning that a friend of his had started a collage of all the people who died while he was in college and quickly became overwhelmed by how frequently famous and semi-famous people kick it. </p>

<p>i wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if someone has already done this although google didn&#8217;t turn up anything for me.</p>