storytelling like the web would have designed it

Joi Ito has a link to something he built called a flowgram [tiny link]. What’s a flowgram? It lets you tell a story while a series of photos and web pages are shown to demonstrate what you’re talking about. I’m so used to static presentations that when I was first using it I thought that the web pages were just screen shots but when I moused over them I discovered they were live. I was surprised at how well-programmed I am to have certain expectations about how a presentation should work. You can also pause the audio and the story, browse around for a bit, and then return to the story.

It’s great to see storytelling mixed with the live web. A very neat idea and can really reset expectations about what presentations could and should be. I’ve already professed my love for visual storytelling and this is right up my alley.

(And I’m sad that a lot of it is written in flash, but don’t worry – audio and video are coming to a browser near you.)