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.
September 3, 2008 – 11:51 am
NYT on Scholastic’s The 39 Clues. Go Karen go! Special Gaiman issue of ImageText. Very, very cool. Ryan Adams, rock star/novelist. Verdict withheld until reading. Warner Bros. launches HTheWB.com. Searchable, indexed eps. Mmmm. Top Shelf $3 specials. This is gonna get pricey. Speculation about the iPod Zune. An “emotional unit”? Seriously? Musicians saying no to […]
August 31, 2008 – 11:45 pm
For months – actually, since almost when I first got it – I’ve had issues with Remiel, my MacBook Pro. It’s emitted a high-pitched whine whenever the brightness has been turned up past the halfway point, but that I could at least deal with. Earlier this summer, though, its mouse key started to stick, which […]
August 26, 2008 – 8:20 am
I carry a small black Moleskine with me at all times with five colored pens clipped to its outside: black, red, green, blue and purple. Every week I recopy my to-do list from an old page to a new page, gritting my teeth and grumbling as I transcribe all the stuff that I’m meaning to […]
August 17, 2008 – 7:29 pm
How I learned to appreciate art house games. Interesting stuff. The future of shopping malls. Saw this last week at LA’s Santa Monica Pier. The case for a downtown movie theater. Even Wooster has one. Dawn of the taco. Good luck Brent! Classifying the novel. Clever. Steampunk Random Story Generator. Funny ’cause it’s true. Warren […]
August 15, 2008 – 2:37 pm
If I were doing Inkblots again, the community aspects of Movable Type 4.2 and the publishing aspects of MagCloud would make it an entirely different animal. The industry has caught up with a bunch of the stuff I was struggling to do, what? Five years ago now? I’m just sayin’. I don’t know if I’ll […]
August 15, 2008 – 10:41 am
Frotz brings IF to the iPhone. You’re standing in a field with an expensive phone… Tate Liverpool launches first iPhone art exhibition tour. I should’ve done it years ago. NIN talking to HBO about Year Zero TV series. Trr-rr-rr-rr-rr-ansmedia! Criterion Collection’s reference Blu-Ray player is a PS3. Sweet, so’s mine! Canadian theaters open for gaming […]
August 14, 2008 – 3:43 pm
This afternoon a very cool thing happened – my Twitter account was friended by the Twitter account for the University of Minnesota Press. Now, to a forward-thinking academic like me, this is not only very cool, it’s incredibly cool – and for multiple reasons. First, the fact that they friended me leaves me with a […]
This weekend I’m in bright, sunny Los Angeles, staying with my friends Talon and Sara and presenting at the SIGGRAPH Sandbox Conference, where I’ll be conducting a transmedia storytelling workshop first thing tomorrow morning. I’m having a great time so far – I slept a ton last night between the six hours on the plane […]
Today I’m responsible for the design of the MIT homepage again. The MIT homepage changes design every day, so if you want to see it, go now! The design is an evolution of what I posted earlier this summer, with a couple of changes – or, if you will, Easter eggs. First, note the MIT […]
August 5, 2008 – 11:02 am
I don’t have time to respond to the piece in-depth at the moment, but a very intriguing piece has appeared on the blogosphere that argues the “Death of the Niche Market” is upon us. Besides a couple of small annoyances with the author in general (an infestation of “it’s / its” mistakes and his billing […]
