Hip-hop pioneer Timbaland has taken digital storytelling to new places.
He built a music video/comic book that actually works better in YouTube. Watch the short video, and pause the frames to read the comic book story that swims around the margins. 203,000 views since it was posted on May 21st--that's a lot of readers/viewers.
Speaking of video, Steve Bryant is not bemoaning the demise of corporate web video at Bud.tv. He offers this lesson for would-be producers and storytellers who want to jump on the video bandwagon: "You can't say I didn't tell you so. And tell you so. And tell you so ... Success requires accessibility. Simple. True."
Uber-book blogger Maud Newton is on Gawker today, debating the future of copyright. She is responding to Mark Helprin's essay proposing that copyright should be eternal. To chill out afterwards, read Helprin's Winter's Tale.
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