Now that I have achieved my highest daily number of daily viewers, I will be moving on CC bisgovuk

Five posts in two weeks. Still not awful.

So, in these weeks I finished reading Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal with posts on:

• Why people tell stories
• How nobody knows why we dream
• An assessment and analysis of Gottschall’s overall argument and definition of story and storytelling

I also began what will probably only be a few blog posts on:

• How I discovered Lisa Cron’s Wired for Story
• A summary of the long-term goals of Hey Storytellers.

I used four new storytelling tools—Blabberize, Bubblr, annotated Google Maps, and Glogster. I liked all of them generally. Google Maps seems like it has the most possibilities. Blabberize and Bubblr seem pretty specialized in terms of their purposes and possibilities. Still both fun, though.

Glogster is also really cool, but the interface was difficult to manage sometimes, and definitely wasn’t intuitive. Still, the ability to make simple but clear timelines there was pretty cool. The other layouts seemed messy, and seemed mostly fun in terms of making posters about impossible or fake things. You know, troublemaking.

Also—probably the biggest news on the blog—is that I’ve decided to migrate back to a self-hosted site. I’m still looking at domain names (I’m going to leave the old site at andessurvivor.com where it is). But seeing the limitations of embedding with a WordPress-hosted site makes me want to learn more about what a self-hosted WordPress site can do.

It’s bittersweet. This was my class blog, and I have forty followers (hi followers!), but I need to see what more is possible with the technology available to me right now.