Only the Good is an 'emotional news mapping' service which attempts to algorithmically sort every major news story into either good or bad categories. The OTG service helps sidestep a system of increasingly autocratic media production which depends on the emotional hit of a story to compete for readership, blurring the difference between news and entertainment. The reader can choose to immerse him or herself into Only the Good or Bad news as desired, emotionally preparing ourselves for each flow: Only the Good provides obvious and immediate comfort, while Only the Bad feeds our macabre fascination with the misfortunes of strangers or distant disasters, perhaps making our own lives appear more fortunate.

Only the Good is a self-running online web-application which allows for a number of custom feeds for various distinct installations. For example Point-of-sale printers (shown above) which print strips of thermal receipt paper with a selection of the most recent Only the Good or Bad headlines at pre-determined intervals in real-time. In addition to POS printers, the project has a synthesized radio-voice broadcast, an Only the Good/Bad emoticon that can be served to a mobile app, and the Emotional News Mapping Graph for video projection.