It is time to start using more than words to tell a story on the web.
The web world is full of articles; one picture, one caption, and 150 to 1000 or more words. This model is the extension of a newspaper or magazine model, and it surprising me that is it still so dominant.
We are hard-wired to not only communicate with words, but to use our eyes to see and process images. The whole day our brains are turned on, processing images. So much so, that when we close our eyes, our brains do a match up playback (and play forward) with the images we collect, and the stories that are our understanding of the world.
It is time to start using the media we have available, to tell quick stories with images, to explain things by piecing together images and words, and even video. You don't have to be a videographer, or a tube-type personality to tell your story or explain your theory, or communicate cool ideas. It is time to stretch your brains, get comfortable, and begin mosaic communications, of words, images, and video.
By hybridizing the word, the image, and video, in a mosaic, it is my hope that people can retain the meaning of information connection, information in context. Drop the top 10 lists that make 3 minute stimulation candy out of human history, tragedy, and life's peaks and valleys.
The challenge is not to write a 60,000 to 80,000 word book to communicate your ideas, or theories. Look at it this way, if a picture says a thousand words, then you can tell a story with maybe 1000 to 10,000 words and 50 to 60 pictures. Not to mention targeted video clips. Your first full length book is sounding a little closer to being in reach ! Make it a mosaic.
The challenge is to promote concepts. To communicate both concept and meaning in a mixed media mosaic style. Natural to us as it was to our ancestors who used pictograms.
The content wave of the information revolution has happened, it is time to begin the connecting revolution of the web world.
It is after all a web, not just a library!
The challenge is not to write a 60,000 to 80,000 word book to communicate your ideas, or theories. Look at it this way, if a picture says a thousand words, then you can tell a story with maybe 1000 to 10,000 words and 50 to 60 pictures. Not to mention targeted video clips. Your first full length book is sounding a little closer to being in reach ! Make it a mosaic.
