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A few days ago, NPR did a segment on the current state of affairs for the Iraq War called The Toll of War.

They’ve been touting an interactive timeline on the air, and are encouraging listeners to check it out. Two distinct and separate friends (in separate states, even) have called to tell me about it, so I checked it out. Here are my thoughts.

Initially, when I brought up the NPR timeline, it wasn’t working properly … perhaps they didn’t have all the infomation uploaded, or it might have been a Macromedia Flash issue (sometimes happens with Flash), but it was very confusing to attempt to click around and not get anything to happen. After a couple of tries, I dismissed it as ‘broken’ and moved on.

After another friend called and said he’d heard about the NPR timeline, I checked it out again. Much better! Everything’s functioning, and it’s actually a pretty nice piece of work. They’ve incorporated audio and images, and it seems to give the viewer a good sense of what’s happened.

All in all, the best part about this timeline is that it validates what T1ME is trying to accomplish. Woohoo!