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.
January 20, 2009 – 9:25 am
(Note: I should preface this bit of writing with a warning: what follows is a first attempt to set down some things I’ve been struggling to articulate for the past couple of years. As such, it may be slightly less than ideally coherent, but hopefully out of it some clarity will emerge.) What is literature? […]
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January 19, 2009 – 11:44 pm
This might seem like a small thing, but it’s actually indicative of a bigger thing. Tonight I changed the ‘Miscellany’ section of this site to Consulting and moved the “Presentations and Lectures” page into the Writing section. Longtime friends and clients will note that, unlike my old consulting site that is (at least for now) […]
January 17, 2009 – 10:36 am
Continuing in the same vein as before, I’ve now managed to the get Movable Type’s new Facebook Connect plugin up and running on this blog. If you’ve wanted to comment on something here but have been deterred in the past, give this a shot and see if it works for you! I’ve also installed Shaun […]
January 15, 2009 – 8:55 am
Cultural Studies sale. Oooh, the good stuff for cheap… Why magazines are useless. Courtesy of HarperStudio’s 26th Story. A monetized Twitter feed? Interesting concept. An introduction to genre theory. Thanks, Julie! Doug Seibold on indie publishing. Really intriguing piece from Slate. Fiction reading increases for adults. Now there’s something you don’t hear very often. Clay […]
January 14, 2009 – 8:49 pm
A number of intriguing calls for papers have come through my inbox lately, so I thought I’d post the most interesting-looking ones here. Anyone who reads this blog has to have somewhat similar interests… SFF Critical Book on Doctor Who The Unsilent Library: Adventures in New Doctor Who Published by the Science Fiction Foundation edited […]
January 13, 2009 – 11:07 am
One of this site’s unspoken functions is to serve as a testing ground for new technologies that I intend to add to other sites for MIT and for my consulting clients. This morning is a great example of that: first I added a custom Google search to my site (now accessible at http://www.geoffreylong.com/search) and then, […]
January 9, 2009 – 8:21 am
Attempting to ease into my rededication to reading the classics, I decided to start out with a slim volume that I vaguely remember reading before, when I was in high school or perhaps junior high: Sherwood Anderson’s 1919 Winesburg, Ohio. As I read through it, I was struck by the truth of the old adage […]
January 8, 2009 – 4:51 pm
One of the announcements I’ve been meaning to make here on this blog is that I’ve been invited to post occasionally over at the official weblog of the Interstitial Arts Foundation. I just published my first post over there, Poetry on the Wing, which is a pointer to the very interstitial work of Bulgarian artist/poet […]
January 8, 2009 – 3:58 pm
The New York Times’ Freakonomics blog is weighing in on the “public library renaissance”: …If nobody seems to be out buying books, movies, and music, what are they doing with their leisure time instead? Apparently: going to the library. The Boston Globe reports that public libraries around the country are posting double-digit percentage increases in […]
January 8, 2009 – 3:51 pm
“We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today.” RNC incumbent chairman -Â Mike Duncan It hurts. Oh, God, it hurts. “Out of touch” doesn’t even begin to describe it. OTOH, “do it in the Facebook” just sounds dirty.
