(eg blogs, flickr, librarything)
is explicitly autobiographical
documenting your life and tastes
and arranged according to
your personal calendar
so it's not hard to imagine
some web2.0 host
(eg facebook)
supporting a personal
autobiographical chronology
for each registered subscriber
that unifies/collates
all these separate
content autobiographies
with anecdotes photographs maps
lists of books read
movies seen
songs heard or sung
clothes worn
food eaten
objects owned
but all these categories of content
and most of the content itself
had its own separate existence
before it first crossed your personal path
(often before you were born)
and wikipedia should offer
a universal
chronological
index/ table of contents
that your (eg) facebook autobiography
should automatically recognise
as a secondary chronological sorting
"in 1973 i read a book
written in 1799"
"in 1987 i saw a supernova
that had occurred 168,000 years earlier"
"in 2001 i witnessed a melodrama
that's been playing and replaying
with infinite variations
since the evolutionary origin
of territorial aggression"
with every human concept
traced ultimately
to its evolutionary source
often billions of years in the past
while this deep
chronological thesaurus-sorting
(or etymogeny)
is barely dreamt of
.
