This is mostly an excuse to post cute dog pictures – not my cute dog but cute dogs nonetheless – but something I find very interesting – in an I think this thing is awesome to think about but it’s only tangentially related to most of what I do and it would take a lot of thinking so right now it’s an interest that is very underdeveloped kind of way – is the different ways that the tools of the social, participatory web allow us to tell and understand and participate in stories.
This is what so interested me about Penguin’s We Tell Stories project, and why I am so sad that I cannot go to this conference (look how cheap the registration is! Stupid international flights and exchange rates).
But one of the things that is so fascinating about the topic is just how easy and simple storytelling can be – I came across this today – a short dog story created by uberphot on flickr and was entirely charmed. Possibly maybe because I have some experience in the holes to china area. Go read. It’s only 9 “pages” long.
Clicking on the image will take you to the flickr set.
And because uberphot was nice enough to put a creative commons license on that let me, I turned the story into an online book for my neice – whose best word right now just might be “doggie.” WordPress.com won’t let me embed, so here’s the Slideshare link.
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