From Borges to Lost: How
Narrative Went Nonlinear with Frank Rose, Author of the Art of
Immersion
Every story must have a beginning, a middle, and an end, Godard
famously declared—"but not necessarily in that order."
What is nonlinear narrative, and why has it become so ubiquitous in
the past few years? Tracing its development across the past hundred
years—from avant-garde artists like Borges and Kurosawa, to the
invention of hypertext and its application on the Web, to the
emergence of "hypertext cinema" at the hands of people like
Quentin Tarantino—Frank Rose explores an idea that seems
increasingly characteristic of our age.
followed by
"The New Curation Economy - Sharing or Stealing?"
with Steve Rosenbaum, Author of Curation Nation
In a world of data overload - its easy to feel that content
abundance is rapidly becoming content overload. One thing is for
certain - with bandwidth and connected devices becoming part of
everyday life - the volume of created content is only going up.
That leaves folks hungry for ways to find better filters, to do
less searching and sorting, and embrace trusted content
'finders'.
Curation is the word for this new practice, adding value
to the noisy web by collecting, organizing, and adding
editorial frame work. Curators are emerging in places you might
not expect, from packaged goods, to consumer
electronics, to shoes and crafts. And, of course curation
is central to publishing from Huffington Post to New York Magazine.
Can you be a curator? Should you be one? Must you be
one? Where is the line between linking and stealing?
I'll share some great stories of Curation's best uses, and a few
where curators cross the line.
