[pknight]

Concept is great! The screenshots don't inspire a sense of it working effectively though. I don't think raw sentiment analysis is enough. 'Good' news to me has one or more of the following qualities:

- It's actionable - It's informative in a pragmatic sense - It invokes a positive emotion, such as curiosity, wonder, appreciation, hope, fascination, delight, laughter - It doesn't aimlessly invoke apathy/fear/anger/disgust/disappointment/hopelessness - It has substance and is more than a mere report or thin and reflexive reaction - It isn't tailored to reinforce a specific political agenda - It's within a domain of interest - It makes be better equipped to deal with the world

That rules out almost all news articles and virtually all of the examples in the screenshots. I don't think that kind of selecting can be done purely with a sentiment analysis.

[vollmond]

The political agenda one is important. "Good" news to me in some areas of society are very much not good news to some other people (say, an abortion-related court case being decided).