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A touch of mysteryBryan Alexander at Northern Voice on mystery, bees and bad PowerPoint
- 7 May, 2010
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Is there such a thing as too much clarity?
Northern Voice 2010 got off to a great start this morning with Bryan Alexander's opening keynote, a call for us to embrace mystery in the online world. He surveyed the terrain of mainstream fear-mongering around the Internet ("Facebook can give you syphilis!") (I'm actually willing to hear that case being made) before suggesting that some degree of genuine mystery can offer a tremendously engaging experience.
I captured some of it on the iPad:
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Comments
Bryan Alexander says
That's a brilliant sketch, Rob. Many thanks for doing and sharing it.
Rob Cottingham says
You're welcome - and thank you for a terrific keynote. I loved your emphasis on the importance of mystery; it reminded me of the thing that struck me the most about Robert McKee's analysis of story, that it thrives on leaping the gap between expectation and outcome.