[fsckboy]

what would make a "word of the day" stream compelling to me would be a word that reflected recent news. William Safire did this to some extent in his weekly column in the NY Times and it was usually pretty interesting.

a way to increase the discovery of relevance could be looking up the etymologies of words that pop up, I'm always fascinated by how complex and interesting etymologies are

[xnx]

The NY Times still does this: https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-word-of-the-day