Everytime someone in blogdom comes up with something new (FOAF, RSS link tag, blogchalking…) I wonder why I hadn’t thought of it before, for most times they are great, simple ideas. Sometimes (like in CSS styling RSS feeds) I think to myself: well, I had already thought of this, there was just some reason it didn’t work for me and could’nt spend enough time experimenting with it to make it work.
OK, I have enough of this. I’ve been maturing an idea in the back of my mind, and have begun implementing it. But, because of this lazy web capriciousness, someone other could complete it before I get to it, so I’ll just let this entry here as proof I had already thought of it:
I am writing something (probably an MT template, and if it can’t be done, an MT plugin) to render a timeline of posts to a blog, in SVG. I’ll use CPAN’s SVG module and probably MTPerlScript to do it.
Of course, I need all my readers to blog this idea so as to certify I had already thought of it first ;)
Update: I trackedback to BH’s LazyWeb site, to allow for other people helping me out. I’ve already done a bit of progress, I’ll try to post a screenshot once I get to it. I’d need now ideas as to how to layout the timeline, please post below how would you have the timeline to look like.
Update: See the screenshot I was talking about:
