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» Oscar Nicholson: The Evolution of Story telling - A Digital Perspective

There are people in the industry who have the ability to change your entire perception of concepts or crystallise a notion that you’ve always felt but never been able to articulate. And Oscar Nicholson (or @returnon on Twitter) is just one of those people. And once again, he’s done it again – here’s Oscar’s take on story telling. Like me – he’s a self-confessed slashie: he’s a video slash director slash story slash a bunch of other things. He’s someone you’d love to have in every idea session – he is a big picture thinker because he understand the intricate details to the Nth degree. So I can’t really sum him up at all!

http://jyesmith.com/a-digital-perspective/the-evolution-of-story-telling-by-oscar-nicholson/

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Donner à Don Quichotte l'espace idéal pour son expression" , voilà l'ambition de la Real Academia , l'Académie de la langue espagnole, qui s'est lancée, jeudi 30 septembre, dans un projet épique, digne, selon elle, de l'œuvre la plus connue de la littérature espagnole : faire réaliser une lecture mondiale du célèbre roman de Miguel de Cervantes , en ligne, par des internautes du monde entier. Lors de la présentation du projet, le secrétaire de l'Académie, Dario Villanueva , a estimé que l'œuvre majeure de Cervantes avait été créée "par et pour les sens, et ceux qui prédominent sont la vue et l'ouïe, la vision et la diction" . Le roman s'adapte donc "bien au nouvel espace audiovisuel et multimédia que représente Internet" , a-t-il ajouté. L'Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche a été divisé en 2 149 morceaux qui seront proposés aux internautes du monde entier.

http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2010/09/30/une-lecture-mondiale-de-don-quichotte-sur-youtube_1418546_3214.html

Une lecture mondiale de Don Quichotte sur YouTube - LeMonde.fr

Consider us incepted. Ever since Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster hit theaters in July, we’ve been trying to suss out dream from reality. Now that we can bring the movie home, we can put our freeze-frame thumb to use. (Haven’t seen the movie? Stop reading. This is one big spoiler.)

Inception, Explained | Magazine

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/pl_inceptionexplained_infograiphc/

http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/the-pernicious-effects-of-advertising-and-marketing-agencies-trying-to-deli

adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » The Pernicious Effects of Advertising and Marketing Agencies Trying To Deliver User Experience Design

[[UPDATE: After the remarkable traffic and response this has generated, I have written a follow-up that better explains some of the motivations behind this post. Please read it after you read this.]] This is a glorious time for folks who work on designing for user experience. In the past couple of months, I’ve spoken at or attended conferences dedicated to mobile, converged digital media, and “the next web,” and again and again you hear from executives the importance of great user experiences. In many ways, this is validating—at Adaptive Path we’ve been dedicated to demonstrating the value and importance of user experience for nearly 10 years. (Personally, I’ve been speaking and writing about it for nearly 15.)

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/11/the_anatomy_of_a_movement.html

The Anatomy of a Movement - David Armano - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review

David Armano is EVP, Global Innovation & Integration, at Edelman Digital , the interactive arm of global communications firm Edelman. You can follow him on Twitter at @armano . Given last week's election results, it's a good time to think about movements.

Social influence happens on the web all the time, and you can improve your webpage if you know how it works. Maybe it is best explained by a real world example: Imagine you are on a night out with your friends and the whole group is about to leave one club and go to another. You had a long day and feel tired, and to be honest, you would rather go home and get some sleep. Your friends, however, tell you to get yourself together and come along.