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.

Clash of the Anchormen.

Slate has an interesting piece up on what happened when Ted Koppel and Jon Stewart faced off on the convention floor. I’m sorry I missed that clip – that would have been interesting.

Quick recommendations.

Just realized I haven’t done this in a while, so if you’re at work this fine Monday morning and are looking for some good tunes to listen to while you’re hammering away, check these out. Almost all of them (if not all of them) should be available at the iTunes store. Matt Nathanson, Beneath These […]

This ought to be interesting.

So according to a story in today’s New York Times,

JOHN KERRY, THE HAMSTER HERO!

If John Kerry can save a drowning hamster, he can save this country! Kerry in 2004! Yeah!

The new normal.

Wow, this weblog has gone to suck lately. The problem is, right now I’m not in much of a position to do much about that. I look around here and think, Dang, I need to do another Inkblots, need to incorporate some niftiness using Flickr or something, need to update my personal site and consulting […]

Beautiful website, spot-on opinion.

Seattle-based art director/designer/consultant Mike Davidson weighs in with All Hail the iPhone, a piece on why Apple is/should be developing a Treo-killer. Good points all around, and the guy’s website is drop-dead gorgeous. Go check it out.

Video of the party?

Hey, does anybody know where I can find QuickTime video of the Gore and Clinton (and the upcoming speeches from Kerry and Edwards) online?

A million things.

Spent the day doing a bunch of catch-up somethings, like bug fixes for my life. Got my hair cut, cleaned out the car and checked its fluid levels, added some furniture to the apartment (thanks, Dad!), updated the Arbor Place website to version 2.1, tweaked the new MedHire website just a smidge, updated my Flash […]

Now there’s an idea.

Ho. Lee. Cats. Nicked from the always-illuminating k10k, there is apparently this little thing out there called a video magazine, and its name is smilefaucet. Weird name, but fantastic idea. I wonder. I wonder.

Back on the air, updates pending.

Have returned to Chicago. Am exhausted, for many reasons. Updates to follow.