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.

Design aesthetic sharpening.

So over the last two weeks I’ve come up with two new “big” site designs, one for a new client and one for an imaginary client, as a subproject for an older client. (In a nutshell, they wanted a fake website created to demonstrate how their information could be syndicated to third-party sites. Neat project, […]

On and off the planet.

Apologies for the erratic posts here, my friends. I’m busier than crud at the moment, I’m afraid — this weekend I shot up to NYC and back to celebrate Kate’s 25th birthday and generally spend some time with the girl (whom I miss a great deal). In addition to that, I’m doing a bunch of […]

Brief fanboy announcement.

The iTunes Music Store has a new track by Counting Crows in its pre-release section, called “She Don’t Want Nobody Near.” That is all. (Woo-hoo!)

More on the iPod microphone.

OK, so there was indeed an iPod microphone announced today. And I am indeed planning on acquiring one, as well as a new iPod, when cash permits. Couple of things, though. First, I wish it had been an actual Apple product. Yeah, I know that Belkin does good stuff. But. I rushed out and bought […]

Being an experiment along purely scientific lines, part 2.

Success! After having infused this weblog with a large dose of Kate, the Gematriculator reports a huge swing towards the forces of good: That’s a drop from 47% evil to 30% evil. In other words, a large dose of Kate makes things 17% better! Muppet labs, eat your heart out.

Being an experiment along purely scientific lines, part 1.

The control. Prior to this post, the Gematriculator claims this site is 47% evil, 53% good. The experiment. Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate Kate […]

iPod microphone?

So there’s a lot of chatter in the channel right now about the announcements Apple is supposed to make this afternoon. Supposedly the “given” is a release of iTunes for Windows, which should be a huge moneymaker. Great, swell, I don’t care. What interests me is the possible release of a microphone for the iPod. […]

I’ve gotta work on those numbers.

I’m not sure I believe in the algorithm being used, though. According to the Gematriculator, I’m 42% evil, my friend SarahScott is 47% evil (getting closer), Talon is only 30% evil (yah right), and in an unnerving display of synchronicity, Kate is also exactly 42% evil. The real proof that this thing is faulty, though, […]

Well, that answers that.

The Cubs, Ken. The Cubs definitely suck more than love.

Go! Go! Go!

As I write this, it’s 9-6 Marlins and the bottom of the 9th. C’mon Cubbies!