25. A method of causing a computing system to automatically present electronic documents in accordance with their temporal characteristics comprising: a. automatically retrieving a set of one or more documents pertaining to a first event identified with the computing system; selecting an event template for said first event, which event template includes a plurality of corresponding event states for said first event correlated and assigned to different temporal periods of such first event; b. identifying first content embodied in a first document which characterizes a first state of such event using the computing system; correlating said first state to one of said plurality of corresponding event states; c. presenting said first electronic document within a presentation portion of a web page in human perceptible form using the computing system; d. it analyzing a second electronic document with second content characterizing a second state of said first event using the computing system; correlating said second state to one of said plurality of corresponding event states; e. determining any temporal differences between said first document and said second document with respect to said first content and said second content using the computing system, including differences between said first state and second state within said event template; and f. wherein after determining any temporal differences said computing system: i. sorts said first electronic document and said second electronic document in a temporal order based on said event template with respect to their content describing said first event, wherein said temporal order is based on content associated with said documents but is not any of creation time alone, publication time alone, or a combination of creation time and publication time alone; ii. determines how such first electronic document and said second electronic document should be arranged to denote a temporal order within said presentation portion of said web page; and further wherein duplicate versions of electronic documents describing a duplicate state of said first event can be selectively omitted from said presentation portion of a web page.
27. The method of claim 25 wherein said steps are implemented as one or more computer software routines stored in a tangible media and adapted to cause one or more computing systems to perform the operations recited therein.