Donald Burkins's List: Stories and Story-Telling

Annette Simmon's website on storytelling

"THE AUTHOR OF THE QUIXOTE

I have suggested that Kuhn had created his own reductio ad absurdum – not unlike the proof of the incommensurability of √2. If everything is incommensurable, then everything is seen through the lens of the present, the lens of now. All history is Whiggish history. There is no history. There is no truth, just truth for the moment, contingent truth, relative truth. And who is to say which version of the truth is better than any other, if we can’t look beyond the paradigm in which we find ourselves. "

Errol Morris on photography

"THIS CONTEST OF INTERPRETATION"
Errol Morris on photography

"SHIFTING PARADIGMS"
Errol Morris on Photography

"THE ULTIMATUM

I don’t want to die in a language I can’t understand.
— Jorge Luis Borges (as quoted in Alberto Manguel, “With Borges”)"
Errol Morris on photography

"Journalism That Matters is an evolving collaboration of individuals supporting the pioneers who are shaping the emerging news and information ecosystem.

JTM focuses on cultivating “healthy journalists” and lively, informative interaction between journalists, educators, reformers, and community members. We support renewing the inner life of the journalist, and embrace all forms of media engagement with an eye towards preparing the next generation of journalists for co-creation with emerging citizen journalist."

"The following are four distinguishing facets of strategic storytelling
that'll help you better understand what it is (and is not), what it does, and
how it works."

Wayne Grytting, author of American Newspeak, seeking to use a humorous sneak attack to puncture the balloons (and, perhaps, buffoons?) of power. Biblio, links, blog postings galore!

Garr Reynolds' blog on issues related to professional presentation design. This Nov 26, 2009 issue features links to a TedIndia talk by Hans Rosling (Reynolds has previously highlighted other wonderful Rosling presentations about "storytelling with statistics." It also features a web-tool called GapMinder - making international development comparisons visual.

A video-slide summary of outlines, camera shot lingo, resource sites (and other digital story-telling videos)

The next day, Hanley said to the jury, ‘Have you seen the way AT&T has defended this case? They have more arguments than you can shake a stick at. Take the easiest case you can imagine. Say a farmer has a patch of cabbages, and his neighbor has a goat. The goat breaks loose and literally destroys all the cabbages.

“So the farmer brings a lawsuit against the owner of the goat, saying, ‘I had a patch of cabbages worth a hundred dollars. Your goat ate my cabbages. Pay me my hundred dollars.’

“And if represented by these lawyers for AT&T, what would the owner of the goat say?

“ ‘You had no cabbages.’

“ ‘If you had any cabbages, they were not eaten.’

“ ‘If your cabbages were eaten, it was not by a goat.’

“ ‘If your cabbages were eaten by a goat, it wasn’t my goat.’

“ ‘And if it was my goat, he was insane!’ ”

“The jury laughed to the tune of $1.8 billion,” said Angus.