There are already institutions that deal with the far reaches of the fact timescale. On the fast end, there is a company started a few years ago called Ambient Devices. A spin-off from the MIT Media Lab, Ambient Devices creates a number of informational appliances for fast-changing information, including the market and weather data mentioned above. On the other end of the spectrum, there is The Long Now Foundation. The Long Now Foundation is geared towards fostering long-term thinking and awareness.

Mesofacts.org is devoted to raising awareness of the middle category of facts. By continuing to educate ourselves and others about the many mesofacts around us, we put things into a new light and perspective. Simply being aware of how much we know about our place in the universe gets us to think a bit differently, in addition to the possibility of how it can help us to synthesize knowledge differently. For more information, please read an introductory essay about Mesofacts, by our founder Samuel Arbesman.

"International Association of Time Travelers: Members' Forum Subforum: Europe -- Twentieth Century -- Second World War, Page 263"

"Documenting Portland, Oregon, [and occasionally the entire Northwest] architecture, history, and culture through photos, postcards, and words."

"A blog on women through time."

Quoth britta: "a 'carefree history' tells the story of how 'civilization begins with fermentation.'"

"Mobile Historical Society Presents: Weird Ann Arbor; or a perambulatory situationist endeavor."

"A map of programming languages and rough locations in the world where they were created. Colors correspond to four major epochs: blue -- first languages, green -- establishing paradigms, yellow --consolidation and modules, pink -- the Internet age."

thanks Ed, this is great fun.

Emergent photodocumentation of ice storm. "Flickr is such a great tool. The day after a local event, I can do a quick, simple search, and be able to find tons of wonderful, artistic photos to remember and share with anyone else in the world."

"The ancient limestone sarcophagus was discovered in an area of London previously believed to have had no Roman settlements and experts claim that the find dramatically alters the map of Roman London."

Nothing quite as compelling as gory, biased history of open-source projects...

"Conventional wisdom says its strategy is wrong, yet it keeps turning out great products. TIME looks inside the world’s most innovative company."

Listing of all episodes w/ links to video, audio, transcripts.