Introducing the Today I Learnt Database. Over the last few years, each day we’ve been collecting a few ‘interesting’ headlines. We dropped them into a text file and at the end of the year went through everything, converted it to HTML and added some tags. It was an interest, but long process. We always had the intentions of doing something with these headlines! We were fortunate enough to attend NewsFoo a few times. At one event, we met Ben Huh who was starting a new way to consume News called “The Moby Dick Project“. You can read more about it on Archive.org since the original post is gone. This eventually spun out to become Circa, which closed and then re-opened under new management. The original concept was a sort of three column view with each column changing in speed and curation. The first might be the news story, the second related events and the third comments. We remember it being described as consuming your Vegetables and Sweets! What struck a cord with us was that there are…
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