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.

Well, yeah, but…

I might get into trouble for this, but this kind of thing bugs me. Steve Garfield is a videoblogger (or ‘vlogger’) who’s another member of the Blogging at Berkman group over at Harvard. A couple of weeks ago, Steve was interviewed by E-Media, “Austria’s leading magazine about internet, high-tech and multimedia”, and the interview went […]

Well, there’s a morning gone.

So for various reasons, my brain has been moving further and further from web development and closer and closer to storytelling. This is fitting, seeing as how I’ll be starting classes in Cambridge in three weeks, but it’s problematic since I’m also feverishly trying to cram in all the stuff I want to do here […]

Dragons in Tibet?

This is undoubtedly an optical illusion, but it’s so cool to have even a slight hope for something like this… A photo of two peculiar dragon-shaped objects taken from a plane flying over Tibet’s Himalayas piqued many users’ interest when displayed on a Chinese website. The photographer is an amateur. On June 22, 2004, the […]

God bless the beaver state.

I gotta say, traveloregon.com is one hot piece of web design. And how cool would the Oregon Shakespeare Festival have to be? I mean, seriously? Othello among the pines? Badass.

Franchise fatigue?

There’s an interesting piece in The New York Times today on Relying on Video Game Sequels. The article states that Electronic Arts, one of the largest game companies out there, is suffering a sales slump which might be attributed to something Janco Partners analyst Mike Hickey calls “franchise fatigue”. Basically, if I bought Madden 2003, […]

Video iPod + podcasting = videoblogging renaissance?

There’s been so much hullaballoo over videoblogging lately that I find myself wondering exactly what it’ll take for me to really get into it – and this morning I figured it out. A video iPod, or easy podcast subscriptions for my Treo. Weblogs are awesome. Weblogs present personal data and opinions and reports in a […]

Event: Kevin Smokler in Chicago.

Event! My friend Kevin is going to be right here in Chicago tonight as a part of the Gapers Block Authors’ Roundtable: On Authorship, Blogs and the Changing Literary Landscape. I’ll be there – come join us!

Doomed, you say?

Fast Company asserts that the iPod is doomed due to Apple’s failure to support an economic ecosystem around it. While it’s debatable that this mentality did originally result in the market defeat of the Mac OS by Windows, I think Belkin, Griffin, Bose, Harmon-Kardon, and the dozens of other companies making iPod products would all […]

V for Vendetta trailer!

V for Vendetta trailer! If you have the machine for it, the high-res QT7 trailer is a whopping 137MB. That’s a lot of bald Portman.

So many things are happening!

Holy crow, how did life get so crazy interesting so fast? After a couple of bizarre weeks, things here have begun to crackle and pop in all kinds of great ways. If you remember that scene at the end of Who Framed Roger Rabbit when they knock down the wall to ToonTown, you’ll have a […]