OK last post was musing. This is the synthesis. People. The world is becoming flat again. example: Interfaces are becoming flat. Touch screens. Flat screens. Tablets. We are writing and reading on tablets again. Let’s hope we don’t fall off the wrong edge. Special thanks to Einat Biran for helping me crystalise! Image source: 1922 [...]

The smell of melons once more drifted across the stage. – Thursday Next The Eyre Affair by the fabulous Jasper Fforde I was just on Facebook commenting as you do, and I realised they had removed my OK button. Huh? In it’s place in tiny text was a little note saying “press Enter to post [...]

“Content, it turns out, is not king” Overwhelmed by all the data? How do you keep up with it? And your files? And filtering it… “… And that is what the Semantic Web could eventually promise to do.” And then there’s the critics… A little story about the Semantic Web by Kate Ray Web 3.0 [...]

It’s rare that I post twice in one day, and so disparately but I’m a monkey brain and these are too good not to share. So I’m on twitter (@natstories shameless plug) and various other “social networking” addictive time sucking adventures in friendship & acquaintance. Some, like this blog, have been wonderful connections professionally and [...]

It’s been a ‘fun’ time at work this week when we launched a new version of our online platform. There are so many different languages and assumptions between all the different groups: product, marketing, designers, engineers…but at the end of the day what you want is a product that users find well, usable. And love [...]

Walking through   I spied the above line drawing, (c) Markus Vater, in a (sadly closed) gallery window – and I quickly captured it, and Markus‘ name,  with my little mobile/cell-phone camera*for me to remember. (*my times are changing, I do also jot in a notebook)  Well today, I remembered him… Don’t you just love the [...]

Crop of The Spinner by Billy Houdek, painting of a woman who talks too much while in the act of retelling a story. Source The Hectare Lesson I recall years ago reading a scene in a book that has stayed with me since. I was about 11 and I think it was in one of Roald Dahl’s bio-works e.g. [...]

Reflecting on a source story*:The Well of Wyrd^… Please note – this post grew much longer than I expected and some of the details are for my learning that I want to also share…feel free to simply enjoy the story / share your thoughts on its meaning. "…And then I learned my first source Story: The Well [...]

"Fuss has most often made unique images with a simple process that completely eliminates the camera – a photogram…." Source Invocation, 1992 This is the second time I have posted Adam Fuss’s images. He is one of my favourite photographers – discovered thanks to a photography teacher, Simone, several years ago…folding back into my new thoughts on visuals [...]

When was the last time you received a postcard in the mail? Today I had the pleasure and joy of receiving a postcard with personal message from Emma. The postcard followed a conversation with Emma, Rebecca and others about storytelling, and also, the various ways to bring people of all ages, including the 20-40year old set, to a Storytelling Festival [...]