One form of story telling that is evolving rapidly due to the popularity of micro-blogs are micro-stories. First came micro-blogs that made sharing your experience or opinion or activities almost spontaneous using short ‘blogs’. These were still dominated by ‘text’. The primary form of these stories was still text. Since technology was evolving very rapidly, [...]
It seems I am in the mood of telling stories about storytelling. Storytelling has gone through many different forms and is now going through a major transformation. This is not surprising because the medium of story telling has always been driven by the technology of the time. We are going through unprecedented transformation in media. [...]
Today I saw this photo in facebook that is being widely circulated — I saw it on Danny Sullivan’s updates: And I started thinking — what is a status update — or a microblog? In essence a microblog is a report/story/narrative related to a micro-event. The event could be an article I read, a personal [...]
I am coming back to my old blogging after a a few months of hiatus. I started blogging during my battle with cancer to update all my friends about my situation and after conquering cancer, continued with blog. It became a habit. But then came Tweets (from Twitter) and Status Updates (from FaceBook) and these [...]