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.