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.
November 13, 2006 – 11:42 pm
For multiple reasons lately, I’ve been thinking about online magazines. As many of you have noticed, Inkblots went down a while ago. It hadn’t been updated since 2002-2003, aside from the blogs of Ken and I, but a perfect storm of catastrophes first brought the site down and then prevented me from bringing it back […]
November 13, 2006 – 2:36 am
One of my great failings as an artist, if not as a human being, is that I’m almost constantly running behind with my projects. This is due to a number of reasons – I’m still learning to say “no”, I occasionally get burnt out and have to unwind for a couple of days to get […]
November 12, 2006 – 4:17 pm
So next weekend is the Convergence Culture Consortium‘s fall shindig, the Futures of Entertainment Conference. I’ve just finished putting together the program for the event, which looks sort of like this: The aesthetic is an attempt to capitalize on what is actually a drawback: the art that C3 manager Joshua Green found for the event […]
November 12, 2006 – 4:13 pm
I’ve been reluctant to upgrade from Adobe CS1 to CS2, but now SXSW alum Joshua Davis has been interviewed by Adobe, and he makes it sound pretty sweet. There may be reason not to wait until the Flash-integrated CS3 after all.
November 11, 2006 – 5:12 pm
Yesterday I fulfilled one of my great lifelong dreams: I bought a coffeehouse. It is now sitting on my shelf. True, this is probably the least masculine thing I’ve ever done, but I have harbored a secret love for those little Dickens Village holiday buildings for years. I know they’re tacky and ridiculous, but when […]
November 10, 2006 – 1:41 am
So my friend Derek just started offering subscriptions to his new JPG Magazine, and I’m helping to shill for it. Keep reloading the page, and you’ll get me eventually. I mean what I say in my soundbite – as a magazine editor/publisher myself, I can honestly say that what Derek’s doing with 8020 Publishing is […]
November 8, 2006 – 2:27 pm
Man, it’s like Christmas came early: Rumsfeld is stepping down. I’m not entirely surprised – after the Dems thrashed the Republicans largely thanks to voters tired of the war in Iraq, Rummy is an obvious target. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, you warmongering bastard.
November 8, 2006 – 9:49 am
Interesting piece in The Washington Post on what the Dems are planning: Early Democratic priorities will include raising the minimum wage, boosting homeland security spending, shifting the nation’s energy policy away from oil and gas exploration toward alternative fuel sources, and reversing cuts to education spending. Meanwhile in the committee chambers, aggressive new chairmen, such […]
November 8, 2006 – 9:14 am
After last night’s nail-biting results, even if the Dems don’t take the Senate (which they might not; Montana is still 49%-49% with 100% of the precincts reporting, with the Dems only up by 1,735 votes and Virginia is Dems up 50%-49% with 100% precincts reporting – both of which sound fantastic but are definite recount […]
November 7, 2006 – 12:40 am
So yesterday afternoon, my friend Aurelia’s dog Daphne passed away. It’s a little odd to be writing about the passing of a friend’s pet, but Daph was around for so much of the time that I’ve known Aurelia that I’m struck by her passing a lot more than I expected. In fact, Daph was around […]
