Author Archives: geoffreylong

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.

Coming soon: A Very Long Engagement.

Just a quick note here to invite you to check out the trailer for Jeunet’s next film, A Very Long Engagement. I love this man’s work – I loved the films he did with Carot, Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children, and I truly adored Amelie. I can’t wait to catch this next one. […]

E-mail up!

My e-mail is back, so any and all missives you’d intended to send winging my way will now reach me (assuming my killer attack spam filter doesn’t wrestle it to the ground first). I’m writing this from the couch of my friend David, in his very cool new pad in Erie, Pennsylvania. This is after […]

E-mail down!

Due to Network Solutions being a bizz-natch (and their excruciating process of getting a domain transferred anywhere else), my e-mail’s been down for a while, possibly as long as I’ve been out of town. At first I was kind of pissed, but then it dawned on me: no big backlog of emails to slog through […]

PHP/SWF charts.

This is here more as a note to myself than as one to all y’all, but these PHP/SWF Charts will come in handy on the upcoming weblog relaunch.

NEW EFO!

OK, so this is definitely the season for Great New Media. The new R.E.M. album hits the streets next Tuesday, the new U2 single has already hit the web, but most importantly, there’s a brand-new Eddie From Ohio CD coming out in three short weeks. PEOPLE! THIS IS CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION! You can pre-order it […]

This is what I’m talking about: Yo-Yo Ma and technology.

There’s a very, very cool example of where technology and the arts intersect in The New York Times this morning:

Social (software) butterfly, part III.

Huh. It looks like the Social Computing Group at Microsoft might be doing just that, with their Wallop project, although from the looks of things so far it only appears to be a Flickr+Blogger+Friendster function set. It’ll be interesting to see where they go with it… I wonder if they implemented FOAF or some other […]

Social (software) butterfly, part II.

Furthermore, someone with deep pockets (*cough*Google*cough*) should go out there and frickin’ buy up Flickr, Friendster, Plazes and all these similar services and roll them all into one mammoth ‘myLife’ plugin for your weblog. It’d be the greatest combination “about me + blogroll” system ever. People are using these systems with increasing regularity, but it’s […]

Social (software) butterfly.

Ugh. So now I’m a member of Plazes, Friendster, Flickr, Orkut… Would someone in the know please modify FOAF so that whenever one of these new services is launched, you could simply import your profile and friends list from FOAF!? This is getting way too friggin’ complicated.

Oh, the Plazes we’ll go.

I’m really bloody tired, so this is going to have to be quick, but Plazes is a new web thing which lets you see who else is logged onto the wi-fi node you’re using. It’s actually really pretty cool, and could conceivably become very cool if it catches on. Check it out! Oh, and I’m […]