Can one tell a story without using text? The answer seems to be yes because storytelling is clearly older than the text. Before text was invented, oral traditions of story telling were common in almost every culture that ever existed. In the last century, visual story telling in the form of albums and then video-based [...]
So how do people tell stories when they have lots of events that are seemingly related to the what needs to be told but telling everything in gory details makes a story boring and may be counterproductive to the goal of the storyteller. Another common constraint is the time or space available. Thus, a storyteller [...]
A normal story is usually to convey experience or information about a particular topic, object (including a person or a place), relationships, or a major event. Most such stories contain a subject or theme, and experience from several events related to what storyteller intends to share with his audience. Of course stories are told with [...]
One one hand we have micro-stories that reflect experience of just one ‘small’ event. Such an event could be a meeting, a party, or anything that is considered by user as something worth sharing experience but not worth a detailed sharing. In fact the same event could be shared in more details then it may [...]
This emerging form of the story is more data-driven. It will use meta data as well as data intentionally and consciously captured by a person who may be collecting this for personal use, but then may decide to share the experience of the event with others. Obviously, every story is to share your experiences. That [...]