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SimplyHappyNews.com Just what it says on the URI

26 points by pclark 18y ago

Just a quick offbeat submission that I thought readers may appreciate in their RSS feed. Enough with all the doom and gloom :)

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petercooper 18y ago
Back in the 70s or 80s there was a printed newspaper dedicated to printing only "happy" news. It went bankrupt pretty quickly. Sadly I'm struggling to find the citation, but I read about it in an encyclopaedia as a kid and thought it was funny (and learned a little about how grims adults were that day..) With next to no cost and just linking to external stories, this, however, has a chance. Could you turn this into the Drudge of happy news? Who knows - but hey, I think you've picked a pretty good time to try!
jbyers 18y ago
Infrequent updates reduce the happy feeling.
- apgwoz 18y ago
  In a world where workers get trampled for a good deal at Wal-Mart, the infrequency is probably just reality.
  - Alex3917 18y ago
    Happy news doesn't make you want to buy stuff you don't need at Wal-Mart. Unhappy news is an inside job.
- sh1mmer 18y ago
  There is a submit link, so maybe you, me and everyone here should be contributing...
  - mdolon 18y ago
    Unfortunately it looks like the link isn't working.
    - pclark 18y ago
      fixed that, stupid mistake. :)
      - sh1mmer 18y ago
        Any chance of a web form? Email sucks for this I want to write a bookmarklet!
        pclark 18y ago
        i'll work on a bookmarklet for submissions :)
        pclark 18y ago
        I've created a bookmarklet that emails me direct from browser :) voila - http://cli.gs/S4RVgy http://cli.gs/S4RVgy
- pclark 18y ago
  we're working on doing more and more updates, its surprisingly hard to find totally happy news though :)
immad 18y ago
I like it. I wish actual news was at least half positive
- sh1mmer 18y ago
  Maybe we could write something to splice a feed of Happy News into a feed of regular news to achieve balance in the force.
warwick 18y ago
It's also worth checking out happynews.com, which is a bit more frequently updated.
ibsulon 18y ago
I remember http://happynews.com/ http://happynews.com/ as well -- I considered this a while back, but journalists aren't writing happy news right now, and I couldn't see putting the money into finding and writing it myself.
mtw 18y ago
news are not made to get people happy. In my opinion, humans invented instead stories, music tunes, books, movies, comic books to get hope, happinness and strive for good things.
sdurkin 18y ago
Ha, fun. Although the story about the divorced guy celebrating christmas every day made me kinda sad.
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cabalamat 18y ago
Nice idea.
chime 18y ago
This made me sad: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23013493-5012895,00.html http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23013493... :( I guess happiness is in how you read it.
zitterbewegung 18y ago
Someone should make simplysadnews.

26 points by pclark 18y ago

Just a quick offbeat submission that I thought readers may appreciate in their RSS feed. Enough with all the doom and gloom :)

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petercooper 18y ago

Back in the 70s or 80s there was a printed newspaper dedicated to printing only "happy" news. It went bankrupt pretty quickly. Sadly I'm struggling to find the citation, but I read about it in an encyclopaedia as a kid and thought it was funny (and learned a little about how grims adults were that day..) With next to no cost and just linking to external stories, this, however, has a chance. Could you turn this into the Drudge of happy news? Who knows - but hey, I think you've picked a pretty good time to try!

jbyers 18y ago

Infrequent updates reduce the happy feeling.

apgwoz 18y ago
In a world where workers get trampled for a good deal at Wal-Mart, the infrequency is probably just reality.
- Alex3917 18y ago
  Happy news doesn't make you want to buy stuff you don't need at Wal-Mart. Unhappy news is an inside job.
sh1mmer 18y ago
There is a submit link, so maybe you, me and everyone here should be contributing...
- mdolon 18y ago
  Unfortunately it looks like the link isn't working.
  - pclark 18y ago
    fixed that, stupid mistake. :)
    - sh1mmer 18y ago
      Any chance of a web form? Email sucks for this I want to write a bookmarklet!
      - pclark 18y ago
        i'll work on a bookmarklet for submissions :)
      - pclark 18y ago
        I've created a bookmarklet that emails me direct from browser :) voila - http://cli.gs/S4RVgy http://cli.gs/S4RVgy
pclark 18y ago
we're working on doing more and more updates, its surprisingly hard to find totally happy news though :)

immad 18y ago

I like it. I wish actual news was at least half positive

sh1mmer 18y ago
Maybe we could write something to splice a feed of Happy News into a feed of regular news to achieve balance in the force.

warwick 18y ago

It's also worth checking out happynews.com, which is a bit more frequently updated.

ibsulon 18y ago

I remember http://happynews.com/ http://happynews.com/ as well -- I considered this a while back, but journalists aren't writing happy news right now, and I couldn't see putting the money into finding and writing it myself.

mtw 18y ago

news are not made to get people happy. In my opinion, humans invented instead stories, music tunes, books, movies, comic books to get hope, happinness and strive for good things.

sdurkin 18y ago

Ha, fun. Although the story about the divorced guy celebrating christmas every day made me kinda sad.

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cabalamat 18y ago

Nice idea.

chime 18y ago

This made me sad: http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23013493-5012895,00.html http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23013493... :( I guess happiness is in how you read it.

zitterbewegung 18y ago

Someone should make simplysadnews.