"(...) We live in stories. We breathe stories. Most of our best conversations are about stories. Stories are a big step sidewise and up from information:

• Unlike information, they have a start and a finish. The order counts a lot.
• They talk about events, not conditions.
• They imply a deep relationship among the events, a relationship characterized overall as "unfolding" as if the end were present in the beginning - as of course it almost always is (as was foretold, in a fractally recursive sense, by Aristotle at our culture's beginning).
• Stories are about particular humans; no substitutions allowed.
• Unlike a set of economic forecasts or trends analysis, they do not pretend to offer the certainty that life will continue to work this way. (On the other hand, the story is more likely to be correct than the forecast because it takes all of our current understanding of the world to accept a story.)
• Stories are told in a human voice. It matters who's telling it.

So, stories are not a lot like information. But they are the way we understand. (...) Stories are how we make sense of things. (...)"
http://www.josschuurmans.com/2007/07/the-cluetrain-m.html

Jim says: PLEASE, if you have a good story, please add a page and then put a title here so that we can all navigate to your story and enjoy it. Good stroies make for good conversations and good friends.