Geoffrey Long is a media analyst, scholar, and storyteller exploring transmedia experiences, emerging entertainment platforms and the future of entertainment as the Lead Narrative Producer for the Narrative Design Team at Microsoft Studios. He is an alum of the MIT Comparative Media Studies program, a FoE Fellow with the Futures of Entertainment community, and a co-editor of the Playful Thinking book series from the MIT Press. His personal site can be found at geoffreylong.com.
October 26, 2004 – 5:56 pm
I have always insisted that I would never live in the suburbs. I want land, dammit, not a backyard the size of a postage stamp. But living in my new place in Chicago has taught me the virtue of suburbia: no shared walls. My idiot asshole upstairs neighbors like to come home and blast inane […]
October 26, 2004 – 2:08 pm
So Apple released the new iPod Photo, a 40GB or 60GB iPod with a color screen and video-out for displaying photos. Now, if it had been video it displayed (and I’m not 100% certain why it doesn’t, unless of course it’s a limitation of the video chip they can squeeze into a 6-ounce chunk of […]
October 26, 2004 – 11:26 am
One voiceover site finished, and a towering pile yet to go: Jim Robesky. Consider this Finishing Season Lite.
October 26, 2004 – 10:47 am
Wow, big news this week for guys like me. First off, the Treo 650 was finally announced by PalmOne. It’s supposed to be available from Sprint in November for a whole ton of cash. Second, Macromedia gave a demo of the next generation Flash player at a conference in Tokyo, and the inimitable Colin Moock […]
October 25, 2004 – 10:54 am
One personal site relaunch. One personal corporate site. Two personal sites for friends. One personal corporate site for a friend. Twelve voiceover sites. Two major corporate sites. How the hell did my to-do list get this out of control? My personal challenge to myself – get as much of this done as possible by midnight […]
October 22, 2004 – 12:03 am
I may have already noted this here – I know I’ve come across this before, and it’s definitely the kind of thing I’d want to share with you, or remember myself: Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. Lately I’ve been listening to Mr. Mau quite a bit. He gave a lecture this morning as a […]
October 21, 2004 – 2:20 am
The good Matt Huaghey proposes a fascinating, if unlikely, scenario if Kerry+Edwards takes the White House: Attorney General Lawrence Lessig. Seriously, imagine that for a minute: someone in the cabinet that really gets it. The mind boggles.
October 20, 2004 – 3:15 pm
Late last night, I was lying in bed and thinking about all the things I’ve been studying and reading lately, and there was this odd sensation in the back of my head, like a coffeepot starting to percolate. I feel like there’s something that’s just about to happen, and I’m not talking about the elections. […]
October 13, 2004 – 9:47 pm
I wasn’t going to weigh in on the debate tonight, because it’s pretty clear where I stand on things, but in Bush’s closing comments he said something staggering: “Over the next four years we’ll continue to rally the armies of compassion to help heal the hurt that exists in some of our conuntry’s neighborhoods.” The […]
October 13, 2004 – 5:43 pm
This morning’s brief note aside, it’s been awhile since I’ve done any serious, in-depth blogging around here. Again, this is in part because I’ve started mentally shifting all my weblogging energy over to the new geoffreylong.com weblog, which isn’t yet available for public consumption. This is not to say that when I do whip the […]
