Bryan Alexander at Northern Voice on mystery, bees and bad PowerPoint
Blog · 7 May, 2010 · By Rob Cottingham
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:
You don't touch up a baby picture—you're a baby!
— Stephen Sondheim