Stories from the New Aesthetic : Joanne Mcneil
A lovely piece from Joanne on storytelling, identity and the internet.
Tags: stories
Stories and Tools - Anil Dash
This post is ten years old, but I think it might still be the best attempt to demarcate a difference between web “sites” and web “apps”: think of them as stories and tools.
It’s also remarkably prescient about the need for an effort exactly like HTML5:
A widely-distributed, standards-compliant, browser and platform-independent library of functions that would perform the basic user interface functions for a web-based tool, relying on the server side only for the logic and data sourcing.
Did I ever tell you about the time….
There’s something zen-like about these banal stories of celebrity encounters.
Follow the lives of four Londoners during World War 2 via Twitter – Network’43
A nicely-designed project to highlight everyday life in a three-week period in England in 1943 by imagining how four people would have used Twitter.
BBC Dimensions: How Many Really?
A nice project from BERG that aligns numbers from your own world (like the number of people you follow on Twitter) to numbers in the larger world.
F*ck Yeah Headlines
Each weekday I find a headline on a major news site, and illustrate it without reading a word of the story.
Historypin | Home
Old photos placed on a map. Quite engrossing.
Flickr: Discussing Personal connections in the Commons in Flickr Commons
Great stories of the Flickr Commons as people identify their relatives in photographs.
hitotoki : A Narrative Map of Tokyo
Short stories in Tokyo.
kung fu grippe : Making the Clackity Noise
I want to frame this and mount it on my wall so I will see it every day.
Missed Connections
"Messages in bottles, smoke signals, letters written in the sand; the modern equivalents are the funny, sad, beautiful, hopeful, hopeless, poetic posts on Missed Connections websites. Every day hundreds of strangers reach out to other strangers on the strength of a glance, a smile or a blue hat. Their messages have the lifespan of a butterfly. I'm trying to pin a few of them down."
Ga-Fi at Binary Bonsai
The importance of storytelling in games.
Ficly - A better, shorter story
Ficlets is back ...as Ficly. Take that, AOL: this site is just too good to roll over and die.
Nina Katchadourian
The Sorted Books project: using book titles to create short narrative pieces.
We Tell Stories - 'The 21 Steps', by Charles Cumming
The first of the We Tell Stories series is online. It's a clever piece of storytelling using Google Maps to full effect.
We Tell Stories
Aleks pointed me to this sort-of ARG involving authors in London. Could be good fun.
Fray: The Quarterly of True Stories
The site that sparked my love affair with the web returns as a quarterly book.
Anguish Languish
Tired of using "lorem ipsum dolor..." for placeholder copy? Use real English words that, while apparently non-sensical, transform into stories when spoken aloud.
One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.
Fray.com meets Twitter: one-sentence long true stories. This is the kind of thing that reminds why I work on the Web.
Ficlets | Welcome to Ficlets!
Project Apeshirt is finally revealed and it's pretty darn cool — collaborative short fiction.
BuzzFeed
A new site for tracking what's hot and what's not.