April 2011

• 2011-04-26

  Full confluence

  This blog post is wildly out of date! Confluence turned into a book. See cfkurtz.com/confluence for details. Read more

• 2011-04-20

  Practical ethics in story gathering

  This blog post has been moved to (and revised for) The Working with Stories Miscellany. You can find it in Chapter 12, “Practical Ethics in PNI.” Read more

• 2011-04-15

  Spring and new life for Rakontu

  Every year I forget about spring, and it’s such a wonderful surprise to find it all happening again. I can’t get enough of sitting on the ground beside the withdrawing snow and just looking at the dirt. It’s still there, and there are still things growing in it. What are seasons but a story that Read more

• 2011-04-04

  Saving stories or saving storytelling?

  The other day I read an article in this week’s Christian Science Monitor called “Saving the stories.” I can’t stop thinking about it. The article is about people in Qatar collecting stories from old people and packaging them for young people to experience. As I keep rereading it I keep coming back to a few Read more

• 2011-04-02

  Form, function, and phenomenon

  I have sorta-kinda written about story as form, function, and phenomenon so many times now that I wonder if people wonder why I keep glancing at it and never hitting it head on. The answer to that question is (of course) a story. The quiet question The Knowledge Socialization group at IBM Research, of which Read more