The unfinished conversation now includes book publishing
Tomorrow, I’m a featured author at the University of Washington Libraries Literary Voices benefit dinner. I’m still not entirely sure why I was asked to host a roundtable; compared to keynote…
STORYTELLER UPRISING
Storytelling and Design
The Universe must be trying to tell me something. Over the last few weeks, I’ve been inundated by the connection between Design and Story. This article helps me grasp the connection.
My on-air show-and-tell with iPad 2
Guest Post: “Meaning” — what Ann Hedreen thought of my SALu lecture
[Writer Ann Hedreen attended my SALu Storyteller Uprising lecture on February 9th, and contacted me later to share her thoughts about the lecture, posted originally to her Restless Nest blog….
Seattle Arts & Lectures U Presentation
This Prezi was designed by MCDM’er Roni Ayalla, building off of my earlier presentations. Here’s my script:
1. Thank you for joining us tonight. We agreed to partner with Seattle Arts &…
Now on Kindle
As I mentioned earlier. I’m exploring how I can produce Storyteller Uprising as an enhanced e-book (I even put that question out on Quora). It’d be pretty non-disruptive otherwise…
Wallflowers of the uprising
Frank Rich’s Wallflowers at the Revolution in this weekend’s New York Times resonates deeply. It hits me both as an observer on the impact of social media platforms on such uprisings, as well as…
Whether he means it to or not, here Morozov’s cyberskepticism renders a critique of Gladwell’s cyber-indifference.
A new model for storytelling: transmedia
Terrific insights on Media Space TV from transmedia storytelling (a.k.a. “multiplatform storytelling”) guru Brent Friedman, the importance of gaming, and how the Pacific Northwest has…
Good news for Snagfilms (and me)
Ahead of the Sundance Film Festival, the Wall Street Journal’s Kara Swisher reports that online professional documentary distributor SnagFilms (which also distributes both of my films — playlist embedded above) has just “snagged” another $10 million in financing. That puts the site at a $50 million valuation.
The service, unlike the subscription-based video giant Netflix, currently distributes free non-fiction documentary films with advertising, as well as offers rental streaming and purchase options.
And it is profitable, said Ted Leonsis, the former AOL exec who is the founder and has been the driving investor in SnagFilms.
“It was always my personal frustration as a backer of documentaries that you could not get distribution far and wide,” he said in an interview earlier today.
He noted that while Netflix is really now focused on big studio fare, “what we’ve discovered is a big supply of independent video that has never seen light of day, but that has a big audience.”
SnagFilms’ strategy is to give broader reach to these films, which often don’t even have a theatrical opening–or, if they do, are very small.
