As I continue to explore the new tools and concepts of transmedia storytelling, I continue to run into the same conclusion. The whole concept of publishing is becoming a huge smear, upon which we can now tell stories in unprecedented ways. The trouble comes when I try to explain what I'm doing. I'm just not sure how to classify them.
Take one of my latest test-cases, using Storify to document my first ever experience of seeing Kiss in concert. While I've live tweeted a lot of different things, I'd never done a concert, so it sounded like a fun way to share the experience.
So last Saturday, instead of carrying pen and paper to capture my thoughts, I used Twitter, knowing ahead of time I would then collect the tweets together and produce a new Storify. How about story? Is it a micro-book? Is it the future of content? Anyway, I have a confession to make. I did take pen and paper to the concert, I just didn't use them. :-D
So if you haven't checked out "A long overdue evening with KISS," please check that out and let me know what you think.
Along these same lines, we also have the further blurring of the publishing landscape when you consider, "What if I sold access to a Storify story that had used someone else's tweets, do I have to pay them?" In a recent Publishing Perspectives discussion, they asked just that: "Should Tweeters Be Compensated for Contributions to Books?"
With each trip down this transmedia storytelling convergent rabbit hole, publishing becomes less relevant and the roles of author and audience and collaborator become less clear. That's eventually my dream, to be able to help make sense of this new convergent world of storytelling. I just hope I don't get lost along the way....
Take one of my latest test-cases, using Storify to document my first ever experience of seeing Kiss in concert. While I've live tweeted a lot of different things, I'd never done a concert, so it sounded like a fun way to share the experience.
So last Saturday, instead of carrying pen and paper to capture my thoughts, I used Twitter, knowing ahead of time I would then collect the tweets together and produce a new Storify. How about story? Is it a micro-book? Is it the future of content? Anyway, I have a confession to make. I did take pen and paper to the concert, I just didn't use them. :-DSo if you haven't checked out "A long overdue evening with KISS," please check that out and let me know what you think.
Along these same lines, we also have the further blurring of the publishing landscape when you consider, "What if I sold access to a Storify story that had used someone else's tweets, do I have to pay them?" In a recent Publishing Perspectives discussion, they asked just that: "Should Tweeters Be Compensated for Contributions to Books?"
With each trip down this transmedia storytelling convergent rabbit hole, publishing becomes less relevant and the roles of author and audience and collaborator become less clear. That's eventually my dream, to be able to help make sense of this new convergent world of storytelling. I just hope I don't get lost along the way....
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