Blogmarks : Public marks with tags firstperson & culture

group hug // anonymous online confessions

like postsecrets but in prose; "type a note about a fault of your own, something you did or thought about and are not proud of"; filters out obvious lies, overtly vulgar, identifying specific others.

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Third Coast International Audio Festival // Chicago Public Radio

by jlesage

one of the best sources for audio documentaries; here also are many how-to sessions

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BBC NEWS | UK | UK Politics | Audio slideshow: Eel and pie shop

by jlesage

the restaurant has been running in London since 1862. Audioslideshow

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Jeffrey Ruoff: Publications

by jlesage

major writer on visual ethnography has many of his essays online

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I Photograph to Remember

by jlesage

Pedro Meyer's photoessay about his father's last days; a classic

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MediaStorm: A Multimedia Production Studio Founded by Brian Storm - Multimedia, Photojournalism, Photography, Video, Audio, Storytelling

by jlesage

audio/slideshows with international stories by accomplished photojournalists

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by jlesage

artist and teacher's web site; under "digital storytelling" are wonderful quicktime movies, often from South America or in Latino USA, with subtitles; an exemplar of documentaries on the Internet

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TDR: "'You are here': the DNA of Performance"

by jlesage

essay by Diana Taylor about how traumatic events may be represented and possibly transmitted to those who did not experience them

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Kate Bornstein's Blog for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws: The Voice Lesson

by jlesage

"Kate Bornstein in a slide show version of "The Voice Lesson," a trans-positive, feminist, funny look at how women are expected to talk." Makes good use of audio as unique medium for exposition of this content. Example of how audio slide show works.

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One sentence that relates something true

by jlesage

good for autobiographers, bloggers, screenwriters--folks who want to write pithy impactful accounts of their and others experiences.

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One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence.

by jlesage

Like one of my favorite sites, postsecrets, this has a kind of documentary wit that resides in brevity and style.

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Pew Internet - Bloggers Report, July 19 '06

by jlesage

Most bloggers are diarists and do not consider themselves reporting on news, politics, etc.; pdf file of complete report available here

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BBC Cumbria - Digital Lives

by jlesage

important video autobiography project for UK television

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MemoryMiner - Digital Storytelling Software - Software

by jlesage

"Photos as individual frames in an endless story board, allowing sound, video, documents and URLs added to each frame. "

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Local Projects

by jlesage

designers of the installations for many important storytelling projects, most notably the StoryCorps booth; "an award-winning design studio that seeks to tell stories in public spaces, museums, and over the internet, often simultaneously."

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