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.
February 1, 2007 – 7:32 pm
Ernie jumps to Rouxbe. Ern_dawg, I’m still annoyed you left SF before I got to visit! NYT crossword coming to the DS. A-W-E-S-O-M-E. Exploring the Indian Games Market. Shadowplay makes fantasy real. Williams: “I began it as a television series idea, then, when I ran into a certain incomprehension on the part of television producers […]
January 30, 2007 – 11:25 am
So Apple just launched new colors for the iPod shuffle – the same palette, mostly, as the iPod nanos. Mostly – for some reason there’s an orange shuffle but no orange nano, and (annoyingly) a black nano but no black shuffle. I myself would only be interested in a silver or black shuffle, so if […]
January 29, 2007 – 3:30 pm
I just made a throwaway reference to Bill Gates’ claim that TV will be irrelevant in five years, but I find myself wondering about what exactly we’re going to see replace it. Me, my own TV consumption patterns have changed due to TiVo in the same way that my weblog consumption patterns have changed due […]
January 29, 2007 – 2:15 pm
Gamasutra interview with Susan O’Connor. I got to meet Susan at the Game Writer’s Conference in 2005 and she’s a wonderful woman; I’m tickled to see her making a name for herself with Bioshock and Gears of War. YouTube will share revenue with content creators. This is potentially huge. Google as IPTV megapowerhouse. Joy of […]
January 26, 2007 – 5:25 pm
Harry Van Der Weyden, Morning Labor on the Seine Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC The great best lumbers on the river’s near bank while the spires emerge from the other side’s fog, the day is breaking as sure as the backs of the men assigned to these early chores – the barge must be shorn […]
January 26, 2007 – 5:10 pm
I remove my hat, and then my head, detach my hands before my arms, release my legs from hips to knees, retire my ribs, unlock my heart, disassemble my loose constructions, sort the knuckles from the capillaries and place each piece carefully into boxes, nestling them down in nests of cotton, tucking them in as […]
January 26, 2007 – 4:47 pm
Tell me, love, is this your soul that you leave so casually on the armoire, draped over the edge like a soiled skirt waiting so long for an impossible rinse? Is this your past crumpled on the floor, a hope and a promise balled-up stockings, best intentions kicked to the corner blike threadbare tattered overworn […]
January 26, 2007 – 4:30 pm
Childe Hassam, April Showers, Champs Elysees, Paris, 1888 Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC She is caught momentarily transfixed, her hurried errand abruptly paused at the sight of a flock of men in the rain. The horse-drawn carriage is dark bedecked with a bristling cluster of black umbrellas, a melancholy parade for a soul unknown. There […]
January 24, 2007 – 3:36 pm
The eagle-eyed among you my have noticed a couple of strange inclusions on my links list from a few days ago. “Why would Geoff suddenly be interested in conflict diamonds?” No, I’m not on a DiCaprio kick. About two weeks ago I was chatting with Philip Tan in the CMS office, and he mentioned the […]
January 24, 2007 – 3:24 pm
Red Herring: Apple to Battle Nintendo, Sony? The trouble with viewing the iPhone as a mobile gaming platform – for now, anyway – is the closed nature of the device, not to mention the lack of a Flash plugin for the iPhone’s version of Safari. (Doesn’t that mean YouTube will be broken on the iPhone?) […]
