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At lunch today with Michael Ruhlman, we talked about talking with people. I mentioned how much I learned from Jack Ricchiuto, author of (among other things) the jack/zen blog.

Today Jack writes about how storytelling talents are diminishing:

I suspect that the literacy of story telling declines with the emergence of public media. I saw this with my grandfather, 19th century born Italian shepherd, whose story telling diminished in direct proportion to the amount of TV he watched.

And earlier today, I got confirmation that I’m on the program for the third annual ConvergeSouth conference, to talk about how blogs and new media can be used to collect and promote storytelling. Join me for that discussion, please, in the comments and at the conference.

late evening on 09/24/07 in "Storyblogging" | permalink | Send to a friend

  1. I don’t own a TV, but I do spend an awful lot of time on the internet in one way or another—-a lot of it spent engaged in blogging-related activities, which in my opinion (and yours too I’m assuming) represents a renaissance of storytelling. Disclaimer: I’m also an optimist.

    — Justin Watt    Sep 25, 12:44 PM    #

  2. Justin, your blogging offers some great stories.

    — Anton Zuiker    Sep 25, 01:34 PM    #

  3. Anton, I cited you and your StoryBlogging effort in stimulating me to finally tell a story about the storytellers, Stetson Kennedy and Woody Guthrie, stemming from my visit to Kennedy’s place in Jan 2006. The repost and some further explanation is at my current blog, with links to the original post. Although I’m a scientist, this trip touched me deeply personally. Anyone can (and should) write a story about anything that moves them, regardless of the primary focus of their blog.

    — Abel Pharmboy    Sep 26, 08:54 AM    #

  4. The URL hyperlink didn’t make it in my previous comment but here it is:

    http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/2006/09/stetson_kennedy_revisited_lite.php

    — Abel Pharmboy    Sep 26, 08:58 AM    #

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