The newspaper of record is venturing into poetry. Today may be April Fools Day, but Times Haiku — a new side project from The New York Times — is a wholly serious endeavor launching just in time for National Poetry Month. Nieman Journalism Lab has the full rundown on the Tumblr-based project, which spits out haikus generated from sentences on the NYT's homepage. It accomplishes this by matching words up against a dictionary that helpfully includes syllable count. Selections published to the blog are curated by humans, a necessary step since its creators admit Times Haiku "can't distinguish between an elegant verse and a plodding one."
To build the whimsical project, developer Jacob Harris coded a script that digs through front page...
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