Our Philosophy

The New Digital Storytelling project is developing a platform to bring together web 2.0 stories. These are our philosophies:

1. Our authors and illustrators are stakeholders in the project, their share is proportionate to the amount they contribute to the project and the quality of their work as rated by other authors and illustrators.
   
2. New Digital Stories (NDS) are made up of a collection of microstories that can be read in many order, that can be re-ordered, that can be added to or taken away from. Any microstory cannot be divided, it is perhaps the most difficult form of storytelling. A microstory can take the form of an annecdote, flash fiction, cartoon or drawing, a film, an animation amongst others. A microstory should take no more than 5 minutes to read/view.
   
3. All NDS projects contain a title, theme and synopsis. Author's microstories must fit within a project, if no suitable project exists the author can propose a new project.
   
4. Authors retain all their intellectual rights to the microstories they have published in the NDS project. They give other authors permission to present their microstory as part of a new NDS.
   
5. All microstories should be viewed as widgets and will be available for use on the internet in websites, blogs, podcasts, social networking, and emails. All microstories should contain key phrases and branding to direct digital readers back to the NDS they are a part of and to their author.

Web 2.0 will rock the foundations of storytelling

This blog is little more than a thought: what can the web 2.0 offer storytelling? The last century or two took the control of the story telling from the creative and gave it to the business minded. Storytelling became part of the publishing business, then film business and television business.

Now the web 2.0 can help bring the business of storytelling back to the storytellers. Web 2.0 allows the storyteller to combine images and text in simple and attractive formats that can capture the reader and hold their attention, entertain and enlighten their lives.

New Digital Storytelling is establishing a forum for authors which will take the format of a workshop to refine and improve the stories we write in this new format.