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.

New Apple displays? Finally?

One more little tidbit. If you go to the Motion homepage and look down to the image of the G5 (this one, if this link continues to work), if you look closely the display in there has weird feet. Rounded feet, like the G5’s. Like the image that was making the circuit on the rumor […]

Start the (com)Motion.

Ho-lee… In a special Sunday announcement today, Apple whipped the sheet off of Final Cut Pro HD, Shake 3.5, a beta for something new called Xsan (Storage Area Network), and – here’s the cool part – Motion, a new product which seems to be a direct shot across the bow of Adobe After Effects. Now, […]

Who knew?

Hey, whoa – the woman behind Wonkette is hot! Check out the story on her in today’s Times,

So ready for a weekend.

Am having one of those days when the work is piled as high as my ears and none of it looks very inviting. After a couple very large holes were blown in my week (taxes, my main computer breaking down and having to be lobotomized and then hauled into the shop, and finally blowing a […]

More on Presidential behavior.

One of the preeminent philosophers of our time, Peter Singer, has a new book coming up called The President of Good and Evil: Taking George Bush Seriously. The British newspaper The Guardian has just interviewed him about it. I don’t know if I’d read the book or not – it sounds like it would just […]

The fiscal philosophy of building a library.

Wow. The new Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is

Sending a shout out to Laura!

Okay, so she may or may not ever get around to reading this, but I wanted to share this with y’all because it’s so cool. My friend Laura Thomas was just accepted into the JET program for next year, so she’s going to be headed over across the pond this summer! Wow. I’ve never been […]

Harry Potter the way it’s meant to be: as a holiday movie.

So I’m not that annoyed about Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban being released on June 4 – I mean, it’s kind of cool that we won’t have to wait until the winter to see the next one – but I still think of the HP movies as something best enjoyed around the holidays. […]

On the other hand…

Ask and ye shall receive: from The New York Times,

Why the President got C’s in college.

Anyone with a college education who watched the President’s news conference last night – heck, anyone with any education – should now understand why the President got such lousy grades at Yale. Whenever he was presented with a question, he yabbered on for a minute or two, repeating the same things he’d already said (“Before […]