This seems as good a way as any to blurt out ideas and then refer to them later.  I assume this is also a good way to let people exploit them before I do, which I hope is a good representation of what I see as my stance on intellectual property.  Ideas are valuable, and powerful, but if I’m just going to bottle them up and suffocate them they don’t do me any good, do they?

Okay, here’s today’s concept: “Rabbit Hole”.  Browser add-on or little productivity tool. It would track connections to websites (sure, like this one) in, let’s say, a predefined list of starting points (Google Reader? Wikipedia? News sites? Heavens forfend, TVTropes?) and then have a little indicator superimposed in semitransparent text on how far you’ve gone down that particular rabbit hole.  Number of layers (links followed), number of different paths (tabs), amount of time lost (just a little clock).

You know, to help keep you aware of when you go down a particular winding path. You don’t have to turn it on automatically, just key it to those particular pernicious starting sites.

So that’s what I’ve been thinking about.  Now to climb out of this current rabbit hole.