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.

Buffett on Newspapers.

I have a ton of windows to close today, so I’m going to post a barrage of little entries. TO start: Warren Buffett: Newspapers are “a business in permanent decline”. Not exactly news, but interesting to hear it from the Oracle of Omaha himself.

Quick insights.

A couple of things I need to keep in mind in the new year: one, we are who we are every minute of every day. And two, our experiences are our advantages – the key is to demonstrate how they are all integrated; heterogeny is a strength.

…Auld lang syne.

Rabbit rabbit! Happy new year, everybody!

May old acquaintance be forgot, etc.

Well, that’s just about it for 2006. It was a good year – a long year, a crazy year, in which I visited both China and Japan, presented at SIGGRAPH in Boston, published my first white paper, saw the Democrats retake the House and the Senate, welcomed Laura back to the U.S., and did a […]

…And I feel fine.

Here’s a little present for me this morning: when checking out my Technorati stats, I found that Sean-Michael Dore over at Imaginarywar used the Mayan Shaman I created for Goldworld to illustrate a post on the Mayan Apocalypse. Very cool.

What I really want for Christmas.

Dear Santa, What I really, really, really want for Christmas is to be able to write faster and better. I am currently topping out at about 2500 words a day before my eyes begin to cross and I collapse into an exhausted pile of worthlessness – and often a great amount of those words are […]

THESIS: Bendis on cross-media work.

Newsarama has an excellent interview with the super-prolific Brian Michael Bendis, who is responsible for everything from Powers to Jinx to Ultimate Spider-Man to the most recent animated Spider-Man series. My favorite bit is the following exchange: DF: You’ve anticipated a question of mine. You’re clearly not a guy who’s using comics as a stepping […]

THESIS: Battlestar Galactica comics.

Another case study for the THESIS (and one of the final papers for this term): Battlestar Galactica: Tom Zarek is a four-issue transmedia extension that explores Zarek’s origins.

WARNING: BRAIN MESS AHEAD.

It’s the end of the semester and my brain is going haywire. I have at least two major papers to write, each one in the 15-20 page range; I need to finish my Christmas shopping; I have some client-type projects that have to be polished off… Arg! I find tackling a day of such magnitude […]

Older than some topsoil.

Soon I’ll be 30, I don’t want to be 30… – Moxy Fruvous Today, alas, I kissed 28 goodbye and 29 hello. The 365-day countdown to 30 has begun. Fark. That said, I had a more-than-fairly decent birthday. The first part of it blew a little (had a bit of a tiff with my research […]