Tiago Madeira

The website of the brazilian newspaper O Estado de São Paulo has a nice way to 
display news in a retrospective-style (check <a href="http://blog.tiagomadeira.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/estadao.jpg" rel="nofollow ugc">this 
screenshot</a> 
or <a href="http://www.estadao.com.br/especiais/choque-nas-ruas,158638.htm" rel="nofollow ugc">this link</a> 
— Flash required).
Wouldn’t it be nice if we could display WordPress posts in our pages and 
categories in the same way just by using a shortcode? The possibilities are 
many. That’s why I wrote the Retrospective plugin for WordPress.
It has at least two advantages over the version you just saw:
<ul>
<li>Does not require Flash (its implementation uses only CSS and jQuery)</li>
<li>Has a option to respect the (time-)scale of the posts.</li>
</ul>
See Installation for more info on how to use it.

Retrospective

Retrospective plugin displays last posts or posts from a specific category in a nice-looking "retrospective" way using a shortcode.

wokamoto

Adds a posts (or pages) list of your blog pages (or posts) by entering the shortcode [posts-list].
First example shows how to add the posts list in its simplest form. 
 [posts-list]
Example shortcode will add a pages list to a page. 
 [posts-list type=page]
Example shortcode will add a posts list to a page displaying a year 2011 and 2010. 
 [posts-list year=”2011,2010″]
Example shortcode will add a posts list to a page displaying a category id 10 and 11. 
 [posts-list category=”10,11″]
Example display ONLY the title. 
 [posts-list date_format=FALSE]

Posts List

Adds a posts (or pages) list of your blog pages (or posts) by entering the shortcode [posts-list].

Retrospective vs Posts List