MUST:

• Add refetch button in admin for events
• Add refresh! button in admin for sources
• Add a better datetime_select form helper
• Clean title and descriptions (strip HTML? Unicode/UTF-8 chars)
• Timezones in timeline are GMT; they should be CDT
• Make toggleable layers of sources
• Handle unicode properly

SHOULD:

• Style timeline events Left justify timeline events Truncate long titles in timeline(?) ** clean up the PDF icons
• Generate an RSS feed of events according to selected layers (feedburner)
• Dynamically add hot zones to get rid of empty timeline space? http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/How_to_Create_Timelines

COULD:

• Push PDFs to Scribd
• Figure out how to use XSLT transforms on sources
• Incorporate http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill/ and/or http://www.ifitwasmyhome.com/
• Submit an article feature: people can submit URL for a new event on the timeline
• Event flagging: ppl can vote them down
• iPhone/iPad/Android view
• Work to own SEO on "oil spill stats" and "oil spill statistics"
• Stabilize width of hourly timeband to max size

New Sources:

• response vessel list: http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/nais-georss.xml
• Incorporate transcripts/documents section (http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doctype/2931/54095/)
• Add http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/issues/Deepwater-BP-Oil-Spill as source ** ignore ongoing ... as they're grabbed from original
• Pull images from the flickr feed - http://www.flickr.com/photos/deepwaterhorizonresponse
• BP and/or Deepwaterhorizon Twitter feeds - http://twitter.com/oil_spill_2010
• Collect Operations and Ongoing ... stats from http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doctype/2931/53339/ (PDF)
• Collect consolidated fish and wildlife stats from http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/doctype/2931/55963 (PDF)

Interesting Articles: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ib4SzkiGdVndXgDV6YPkLX7-AdtAD9GK4OEG2 http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill-facts http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-16/bp-gulf-well-gushing-as-much-as-60-000-barrels-a-day-update3-.html

Source.first.events.reject {|e| !e.title.match(/ongoing administration-wide response/i)}.sort {|a,b| a.start <=> b.start} d1.search("//div[@id='content']/p | //div[@id='content']//li")