blog.walking-the-edit A totally new medium for storytelling 6,000 Stories You Can Take With You (And Counting) With the Broadcastr app, there is a new story to discover around every corner. Available for free download on the iPhone, the location-aware app allows users to automatically stream stories about their surroundings. Or, if you feel moved by the muse, you can record your own stories and pin them to the map for other users to enjoy. Download your Broadcastr app here! Broadcastr, a project of Electric Literature, is a social media platform for audio-storytelling shared on an interactive map. No iPhone? A daughter talks about her mother’s long love affair with F. For a blast from the past, you could listen to the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Find it in iTunes: Happy listening, Andy & Scott Electric Literature
5 Ways a Filmmaker Could Use Broadcastr to Promote Their Film » Beyond the Box Office As some of you may have seen from my tweet during DIY DAYS I was impressed by Broadcastr and its capabilities. Scott Macauley, editor of Filmmaker Magazine (who was nice enough to allow me to pick his brain for a bit after the talk) had a fireside chat with Scott Lindenbaum of Broadcastr and Electric Lit. Broadcastr is a mashup (remember when those were novel?) of audio recordings and a Google Map and you can access it on the Internet, or an iPhone/iPad/Android application. From the site: “Users can take a GPS-enabled walk as stories about their surroundings stream into their headphones, like a museum tour of the entire world. It just launched recently and already they have some impressive partners. Lindenbaum talked about it as a great way for local businesses to drive traffic or to just be more interesting by having people record stories about the place. 1. I’ll go ahead and get this example Lindenbaum gave out of the way. 2. 3. 4. 5. 5 things I like about it: 1. 2.
Geoloqi - A secure, real-time mobile and web platform for location sharing. My Favorite App at SXSW There are many apps on your smart phone. How many do you really use? Me: Yelp, Facebook, Twitter, Huffington Post, Lastfm, and Google maps. My 100 other ones collect dust because they don’t solve a problem or are a bad imitation. At SXSW I discovered an unique app called iTouru: remember listening to an audio tour at a museum, now imagine if the entire world had an audio tour. What is iTouru? iTourU is a new iPhone App that lets anyone create, discover and share what we call ‘Pocket Tours’, which have ’stops’ that are tagged to a map and include audio, text and photos about that location. These Pocket Tours can be about absolutely anything, making iTourU a platform for creativity and real world adventure. How did you come up with the idea? The idea came to me when a friend sent me a satirical tour she had made about a renaissance exhibition. So that’s what we did: built a platform for creativity and real world adventure. Who did you make this for? Good question. Absolutely. Simple.
Telling stories through Foursquare: Derby 2061 Richard Birkin of production company Mudlark is experimenting with using Foursquare as a storytelling platform, turning it into a wormhole to the future. The project is called Derby 2061, and imagines a future where a company has used the vast amounts of personal data being made public online to allow people to experience the memories of other people. The result is a memory economy, where people's emotions, thoughts and feelings can be bought and sold. Birkin has set up more than 50 Foursquare locations around Derby city centre and Darley Abbey, exploring what the city might look like in half a century's time. "There's a story in it to find. For example, when you arrive, you can check into Derby Monorail Interchange & Vacuum SubLine Hub on Foursquare and read tips about the memory ports in the carriages. "Two of my favourite things are stories and time-travel," says Birkin.
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