Protest on Web Uses Shutdown to Take On Two Piracy Bills
“This is the first real test of the political strength of the Web, and regardless of how things go, they are no longer a pushover. The Web taking a stand against one of the most powerful lobbyers and seeming to get somewhere is definitely a first.”
— Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School on the efforts by the technology industry to fight Congressional bills aimed at curbing online piracy.
Source: The New York Times
Redefining Interactive Narratives & Multimedia Storytelling
drewvigal (Multimedia Editor, The New York Times)
AIGA recently updated its Pivot website and made available a few of the “main stage” presentations as videos from their convention in Phoenix. I’d recommend watching a few of them, including Jonathan Hoefler & Valerie Casey.
Accompany this with a recent interactive story we produced at The New York Times (more on this later), and I’m inspired to write this overdue post on my contributions to the conversation at AIGA-Pivot. It’s an opportunity to share some of my thoughts on what excites me today about interactive storytelling and the projects we are producing on the multimedia desk.
In Africa, the Art of Listening
drewvigal commenting the article In Africa, the Art of listening on the NYTimes
“… Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans, the storytelling person.”
Brilliant. I love this sentiment.
“Western literature is normally linear; it proceeds from beginning to end without major digressions in space or time…. Here, instead of linear narrative, there is unrestrained and exuberant storytelling that skips back and forth in time and blends together past and present. Someone who may have died long ago can intervene without any fuss in a conversation between two people who are very much alive.”
I’d like to think of an application for this in Redefining of Interactive Narratives.
“Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.”
Again, reminds me of Al Tompkins’ mantra: “people remember what they feel longer than what they know.”
