Dashboarding

Working my way through Howard Rheingold’s wonderful curriculum on network and social literacy. In it, he recommends using Netvibes as an organizing post for information flow; for me it would entail replacing iGoogle. The net result is an information process flow that truly enables one to surf atop a dense informational substrate.
Using the dashboard still leaves me constrained; our brain and sensory system are not designed to deal strictly in and x by y matrix. Current “dashboards”, relying on current technology, omit the z and t. They deny the physical semantics that convey so much of the depth and presence of our understanding. They really fail in terms of serving as an interface for semantic intelligence and agent design