January Crop of 366 photos posted 1 Feb ’08, 10.20pm MST PST on flickr One month down for the year’s pledge of 366 daily photos posted to flickr (plus one into February), 8.1% done! This has been so much fun to do; making time and effort each day to think visually, and look for novel […]

My WiLD SeLF posted 1 Feb ’08, 8.59pm MST PST on flickr Attractive, eh? I made this with www.buildyourwildself.com/ a site apparently sponsored my the New York Zoo and Aquarium, more likely aimed at kids than people my age. its a flash based avatar creation web app, you starte with basic choices of adding hair, […]

If I am not President, I sure am on the Board of Directors of the Bryan Alexander Fan Club. So it becomes even more amazing when he wants to dine with me before his workshop and get feedback on his plans for the session he did at the EDUCAUSE ELI conference on Web 2.0 Storytelling.

Bryan has such range in his expertise and real literary and knowledge depth, while my last read might have been a lame Stephen King retread. But that’s beside the point.

Somehow I was able to get myself in the door of Bryan’s session as a helper, so I was an interloper. Despite my rants of a need to change the lecture mode in conference sessions, Bryan is one I can easily sit back and listen to because he brings such original ideas, out of the norm examples, and a thoughtful framework, that it is a great lecture– bit better than that, he is always drawing in the participants individually or as a group.

And he provides all his notes, resources, and links on a wiki, so one does need to be a monk-like scribe in the sessions. In fact, he encouraged a lot of wiki mucking up, which you can see has been modified with notes, comments from participants workshop. Can you imagine some slick presenter allowing their audience to annotate hos powerpoint as he/she presents?

Bryan and I talked both before and after his workshop in ideas about what we *mean* when we talk about web storytelling, and what we can best communicate to such audiences, and am hoping to here, outline what I thought we might have said.

A Fracking Understatement posted 31 Jan ’08, 8.30am MST PST on flickr Twitter is surely loosing fans left and right, and really ought to be sharing more info than this crappy screen. Heck, I;’d rather see the cat in the server picture. I know! It was the severe twittering at the ELI EDUCAUSE conference that […]