Tuesday, May 24, 2011

The Pull of Narrative – In Search of Persistent Context

In our digital world, content providers progressively chunk up their offerings to provide more choice and easier access. Music is now available by the track rather than packaged onto a CD. Sure, we will continue to watch movies and TV programs on our digital devices, but increasingly we consume video in bite-sized chunks – the preferred length of a YouTube video is 2 – 5 minutes. As for text, it has been progressively deconstructed from books to articles to blog postings to 140 character tweets.As this occurs, value moves from content to context.

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