http://www.dstory.com/dsfsedona_04/history.html
During its first five years, the Digital Storytelling Festival grew from a small invitation-only group of thirty to almost two hundred attendees with a focus on arts and entertainment and topics as diverse as building communities and corporate branding.
http://archive.salon.com/21st/rose/1998/09/29straight.html
Every year the Digital Storytelling Festival in Crested Butte, Colo., which recently concluded its fourth event, serves as a gathering place for artists, technologists and educators who believe that narrative is even more important in the digital age than it was in the print era or the age of the oral tradition. The festival is a rare bird in a world full of bland, sales-pitch-driven industry conferences; intimate and artistically diverse, it's both a showcase for new works of art and a think tank for thrashing out complex questions -- like who owns stories, who gets to tell them, why some stories work and others don't and what happens to a broadcast-dominated society when suddenly everyone is at least potentially a producer and distributor of media.
