time lines project

A Principle:

We create things on line ... a blog post, etc., etc.

Over time, we accumulate small seas of these. The problem is making sense of those collections of things.

The plan:

Create methods that show whole seas of things. The individual things in such an image can be inspected more closely.

This is another instance of something that is being treated, in the industry, as important but peripheral and nascent, and which I think is actually paramount and worthy of immediate focused attention.

Example:

A blog records events over time. Design the blogging tool to create a graphic representation of whole spans of time - months and years of time, even - as represented by all the posts. The content of individual posts may not be visible at all, or it may be visible only in a symbolic form. The deployment of posts over time, however, will be a vital form of information entirely in its own right.