"Timelines seem to me a format ideally suited to the Web.
-browsable
-editable
-compact
-permits many offsite links
-object of contemplation


Maximising diversity was a goal, because the timeline makes a better object of contemplation if it brings together lines of thought that are normally segregated.

Boiling down more-complex issues to seven words is an art I've been exploring for several years in my weblog-headlines. [eg]

Some time-periods were unusually rich (the Sixties, the Cambrian) others sparse (hominid evolution, galactic evolution)."

scroll down to the table of geologic time