I love the idea of creative uses of timelines - they seem to me a currently underutilized vessel in the "digital storytelling" world, which seems to be dominated by photo/audio slideshows. One timeline project of particular interest to me is The Carolina Story: A Virtual Museum of University History, a collaboration between The UNC Center for the Study of the American South and The University Library. But how to do something like this collaboratively?

Enter xtimeline. It has a pretty standard timeline interface, with scrolling and the ability to drill down into event details. The cool part, though, is that you can set group and public editing permissions, i.e. this one on World of Warcraft.

Right now it seems there's a lot of empty space: my searches for Mississippi and Carrboro turned up nothing. So, this is a good time to go start a timeline over there! Would wikipedia work better as a timeline-based application? What if you could hyperlink to other timelines that people had made in xtimeline? Timelines may well become one of the most popular forms of wikumentary. It's exciting to see how this will play out.

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