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Storytelling: digital technology allows us to tell tales in innovative new ways. As the tools available to publishers grow more sophisticated, it's up to us to experiment and see what sticks. [...]Stories are memory aids, instruction manuals and moral compasses. When enlisted by charismatic leaders and turned into manifestos, dogmas and social policy, they've been the foundations for religions and political systems. When a storyteller has held an audience captive around a campfire, a cinema screen or on the page of a bestseller, they've reinforced local and universal norms about where we've been and where we're going. And when they've been shared in the corner shop, at the pub or over dinner they've helped us define who we are and how we fit in. Human experience is a series of never-ending, overlapping stories bumping into one another in expected and unexpected ways.[...]

A timeline of Edward M. Kennedy's life Kennedy born Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's ninth child, Edward Moore Kennedy, was born at St. Margaret's Hospital in Dorchester. He grew up the youngest child of a storied Irish-American political family

The Pitt Rivers Museum's 'Tibet Album' site, which brings together 6,000 historic photographs from Tibet, was partially intended as a resource for Tibetans (how do you reach a diaspora population? the Web!) and certainly does function that way--we've had lots of feedback.