“Tell us more about your current project, Cow Bird. Is it headed in that direction? Cow Bird is basically a storytelling platform that people can use to tell stories online using photos, sound maps, timelines, videos, and casts of characters. It’s geared towards long-form narrative, so it’s kind of the opposite of Twitter and Facebook and all of that fragmented stuff in that it encourages introspection. But the second part of it is the interesting part, which is that when many different people tell stories, the system automatically finds connections between them and weaves them together into a kind of meta-story. In the long-term, it will hopefully become like a reference library for real-life experiences the same way we have public libraries for science, math, and historical fact. I’ve been building and designing it for almost two years, and I’m almost done now.”

— The Never-Ending Story | design mind

1:06 am  •  24 August 2011  •  1 note