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.
January 1, 2006 – 2:01 pm
Hey, all! Here’s wishing you all a very happy and healthy new year (and wishing that when I publish this it’ll fix the extremely upsetting disappearance of this weblog… 🙁 -G
December 21, 2005 – 9:47 pm
Right now I’m in a Comfort Inn in Mansfield, Pennsylvania, high up in the mountains and about halfway home. I find it hysterical that it takes less time to fly from Japan to the states than it does to drive from Boston to Wooster. Jeez! But, yes. I could have soldiered on a ways further, […]
December 19, 2005 – 11:05 pm
Audiences are eroding. ‘Must-see TV’ doesn’t exist anymore. The future of entertainment is narrowcasting and providing portable access-anytime, access-anywhere experiences – but how do you produce those properties on a low enough budget to register success further down the long tail? I’ve been blowing my mind on average once a day for the last week-and-some-change, […]
December 19, 2005 – 12:09 am
Well, it feels like that was either food poisoning or a nasty 24-hour bug, but I just woke up at 2AM with the fever broken and the stomachache gone. Saints be praised! I now have some absolute miracles to work in order to get these papers turned in on time, but at least I can […]
December 18, 2005 – 3:13 pm
Oh, this is bad. This is very, very bad. I have papers due on Monday and Tuesday – big, ugly, whopping final papers – and this morning I woke up at 4AM sick as a dog. Intense stomachache, vomiting, you name it. I spent the next three hours trying to nurse myself back to health […]
December 17, 2005 – 3:08 pm
I’ve spent the day doing thesis research, and let me tell you something: the stuff we’re doing here in CMS is HUGE for where the industry’s headed. Oh. My. God. I’m going to go play Dragon Quest VIII for a little while to let my brain digest this tsunami, and then I’ll go hit all […]
December 15, 2005 – 11:24 pm
Wednesday was our last official day of classes, which brought with it two final presentations and a holiday party that evening at our house. A great day, but a long day – so on Thursday night Ivan, Alec, Alec’s friend Hannah, Sam and Sam’s wife Amanda all headed down to the Loews on Boston Common […]
December 13, 2005 – 9:59 am
Another notable post from TVSquad: the Adult Swim channel? It’s a throwaway line in a holiday wishlist (and a hearty amen to his wish for complete seasons of Mystery Science Theater 3000), but it raises an interesting question. Would it make sense to create a full-fledged Adult Swim network? On the one hand, I bellow […]
December 13, 2005 – 9:44 am
So here’s an interesting little post from my morning’s readings: TYSquad’s top five shows that got much better after the first season. Their list: Seinfeld Friends The Odd Couple Star Trek: The Next Generation The Simpsons The list is insightful (swing by for their reasons), but this makes me think even fruther about reversing the […]
December 12, 2005 – 10:25 pm
The end of the semester can’t come soon enough. There are no less than 20 films that have either been released recently or will be out by the end of the year that I really want to see. I’m well aware that some of these were said to have sucked (like God of War and […]
