SND Orlando: The Opening Session

Right now, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson are giving their talk on where all the readers have gone.

These guys are ridiculously intriguing.

They're discussing 10 notions that are inevitable. The first five are more or less familiar, and the latter 5 are not so familiar. They are as follows:

1. Your audience becomes your co-author.
2. You design a story to grow over time.
3. You design a story to be understood in 10 seconds or less.
4. Your story is a spreadsheet.
5. You design a story to be used in different ways by different people.

1. You don't just design a story - you design a tool.
2. You make a story you can play.
3. You embrace complexity.
4. You embrace ugly.
5. You realize the power of links.

Finally, they end on the note that this is a beginning, not an end; it's a paradigm shift that's requiring some major readjustments.

Also, in this talk they've discussed/highlighted wefeelfine.org, moodgrapher, the graffiti timeline, gapminder.com, theyrule.net, last.fm, del.icio.us, and last but not least, Flickr.

More on this event later...

[Update: This has been posted on Snarkmarket, as well as the blog post at my Visual Editors blog.]