The cal­en­dar has the pos­si­bil­ity to become “the biggest soft­ware rev­o­lu­tion of the future”, says Scott Adams in an arti­cle look­ing at how cru­cial time and prox­im­ity are in mak­ing infor­ma­tion (more) relevant.

I also found myself agree­ing with Adams’ thoughts on news:

When I read the news, I’m gen­er­ally most inter­ested in how sto­ries have unfolded across time. I want to know the “new news,” as in the top­ics that have never been reported until today, but I also want ongo­ing charts and graphs about the “old news” such as wars and the econ­omy. My under­stand­ing of the war in Iraq, for exam­ple, has lit­tle to do with what blew up today and a lot to do with the trend lines over the entire war. In other words, I see the news in terms of time.