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.

The Ravenous Friend of Carson Bell.

The ravenous friend of Carson Bell Ate what he ate, and he ate very well. He rolled into town at a quarter to four, And by six-twenty, our town was no more. There was no early warning of the size of his lunch, He said not a thing, just started to munch, Knelt down his […]

Other things to remember.

Aside from the Gunpowder Treason and Plot, there were other reasons why this weekend was memorable. Last week was heavy, what with two different major writing projects being turned in, and next week is erratic, what with two of my regular classes not meeting and last week’s two writing projects almost certainly requiring some rewrites. […]

Remember, remember.

For obvious reasons, I’ve had the following running through my head all day: Remember remember the 5th of November, The Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. I knew a bit of the rhyme before V for Vendetta, and now I can’t hear it in […]

On GoogTube.

A week or two ago I wrote an opinion piece for the official C3 newsletter, called GoogTube: TV 2.0, or Bubble 2.0? Now Henry Jenkins, the head of C3 and CMS, has republished it (with permission, of course) over at his weblog. My piece is the second of two responses to Google’s acquisition of YouTube, […]

IPTV: Super Deluxe!

Interesting things are afoot in the IPTV space – Turner Broadcasting is launching what might be the first high-profile IPTV “station”, Super Deluxe. The beauty here is that it’s not linked to any existing channel – it’s its own entity. Hmmm. This is one to keep an eye on… More as it develops.

TED: Jeff Han’s new UI.

Check out this amazing video of an “intuitive, interface-free touch-driven computer screen” – especially the nifty bits with resizing photos – presented by NYU research scientist Jeff Han at TED 2006. Theoretically, if one were to increase the sensitivity of the device, there shouldn’t be any reason this kind of UI wouldn’t work with a […]

On Charles Addams.

A little late for Halloween, but very cool nevertheless: an excerpt from biographer Linda Davis’ Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life over on NPR. A man after my own heart.

Clifford Geertz, 1926-2006.

One of the theorists who we’ve been studying here at CMS, Clifford Geertz, recently passed away. The cause of death is given as complications following heart surgery. Rest in peace, professor.

Tradition.

Rabbit rabbit!

Guild of Calamitous Intent FTW!

Sweet! Tonight CMS sponsored a Boston installation of Jane McGonigal’s Cruel 2 B Kind, an assassination-type game where players shout compliments at each other to “kill” them (check out the site for a full explanation; it’s bizarre but a lot of fun) – and my team, The Guild of Calamitous Intent (which is a reference […]