A method for the customized filtering, organizing, and consolidated display and presentation of multi-faceted digital content from more than one content sources as a guide for selection, informational viewing, and interaction by a participant, comprising: providing on a digital display one more categories of interactive options that form a navigation ring; expanding in response to a participant's selection of one of said categories a sphere of digital content associated with said selected category such that the digital content is exposed which is related to said associated sphere, wherein the exposed digital content is presented to the participant using a multi-dimensional display metaphor that provides multiple options and conveys a variety of information simultaneously with respect to the exposed digital content, and presenting the exposed digital content using the multi-dimensional display metaphor comprising: providing a variety of digital content material and more than one multi-faceted digital content material (204A-204K) from more than one content sources; filtering and grouping said variety of content material on the basis of one or more configurable criteria as a function of the participant's preferences, wherein said one or more configurable criteria is at least one of: the historic pattern of access and selection of media content by said participant, and the similarity of said variety of content material to a current selection of content by said participant; and presenting an indicia of said filtered and grouped one or more content material and an indicia corresponding to at least one meta-data (206, 208) associated with said one or more content material, for use by the participant for content display and programming, wherein said content material and meta-data is captured dynamically and on demand. providing on a digital display one more categories of interactive options that form a navigation ring; expanding in response to a participant's selection of one of said categories a sphere of digital content associated with said selected category such that the digital content is exposed which is related to said associated sphere, wherein the exposed digital content is presented to the participant using a multi-dimensional display metaphor that provides multiple options and conveys a variety of information simultaneously with respect to the exposed digital content, and presenting the exposed digital content using the multi-dimensional display metaphor comprising: providing a variety of digital content material and more than one multi-faceted digital content material (204A-204K) from more than one content sources; filtering and grouping said variety of content material on the basis of one or more configurable criteria as a function of the participant's preferences, wherein said one or more configurable criteria is at least one of: the historic pattern of access and selection of media content by said participant, and the similarity of said variety of content material to a current selection of content by said participant; and presenting an indicia of said filtered and grouped one or more content material and an indicia corresponding to at least one meta-data (206, 208) associated with said one or more content material, for use by the participant for content display and programming, wherein said content material and meta-data is captured dynamically and on demand. providing a variety of digital content material and more than one multi-faceted digital content material (204A-204K) from more than one content sources; filtering and grouping said variety of content material on the basis of one or more configurable criteria as a function of the participant's preferences, wherein said one or more configurable criteria is at least one of: the historic pattern of access and selection of media content by said participant, and the similarity of said variety of content material to a current selection of content by said participant; and the historic pattern of access and selection of media content by said participant, and the similarity of said variety of content material to a current selection of content by said participant; and presenting an indicia of said filtered and grouped one or more content material and an indicia corresponding to at least one meta-data (206, 208) associated with said one or more content material, for use by the participant for content display and programming, wherein said content material and meta-data is captured dynamically and on demand.