An intriguing social experiment from the BBC - The Time When:
[...] The site is a place to record and share memories of the important days in your life. It also gives information about events which have taken place on any day since 1st January 1900, and on many dates before that.
Using The Time When, you can add your memories of events that happened on any day, read other people’s memories, search for memories by date and see what happened on any day since 1st January 1900.
The BBC say they hope that a version of this site will be available on bbc.co.uk. To test the idea, they have developed this prototype for a limited period.
The site has some neat features such as each “memory” posted relating to a specific date links to a Wikipedia entry for that date or event, thus connecting to and expanding your access to the overall net of knowledge.
Interesting concept.
There’s more though - 40,000 RSS feeds:
- A feed for all memories posted to the site
- A feed for each user, featuring memories posted by them (see any user’s page for the link)
- A feed that aggregrates memories posted by each user’s friends
- A feed for every day on the site, listing memories posted about it, ie, 7 July 2005 has its own feed, as does every day since 1900
This is quite a project.
