We're not great at standard, everyday ways of using the graphical, networked screen -- blog posts are just text, and they disappear below the fold; pictures get posted, but you have to know the tag or run through huge slide shows to find anything -- all in all, many ordinary user applications seem pretty primitive. 

Between applications that display overwhelming amounts of aggregated data presented as colors and lines and balloons (which you gawk at -- the only reaction is "wow, that's interesting") and applications that display simple text, there isn't much.

So I was pleased to run across Dandelife on Ross Mayfield's blog.  I like the idea of creating a timeline of a life -- it could be about an imaginary life, it could be about an idea (an intellectual history), it could be about a writing project ("how my book came to life"), it could be about a building.  It's a way to visualize information that is just a little richer than what we have now.