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.

New design tech support.

OK, the new design is just about ready for prime time. I know there are some issues with the top nav not showing up in IE for the PC and there’s a little space in the subpage nav there in the top left on the PC as well – both of which are issues with […]

Happy Father’s Day, Dad.

I don’t tell him often enough, but my Dad rocks. Somehow he always knew just the right combination of insightful advice and laissez-faire, “let him figure it out on his own” type of guidance to keep me on the right path growing up without my ever resenting him or feeling the need to rebel. I […]

Why does Batman have pupils?

I have not yet seen Batman Begins – some friends of mine and I are going to see it in IMAX this week – but I’ve been following the previews and the buzz pretty closely, and I’m thoroughly looking forward to this. I was a big fan of Tim Burton’s Batman back in 1989, and […]

Woot! AJAX!

OK, so I had a major headache getting this to work, and I’m still not entirely certain what the problem was, but regardless, I now have the OpenRico accordion trick up and running here on the lefthand sidebar of my main weblog page. Mostly. The bottom tab, the ever-neglected ‘Personal Improvement’ tab, has some issues […]

New feature list!

A big thanks to all of you who have stopped by today to watch the development go down here in real time. In the last day-and-a-half I’ve added sIFR titles to each post (these pages now only use two graphics plus the Flickr photoblog, no kidding), moved the sidebars around, brought back the archives, polished […]

Gravatar!

OK, my gentle readers, I’m most of the way to where I want to be with these upgrades, but I’m not all the way there yet. The concept here is that I’m using Tip of the Quill as a guinea pig for the expansions before I roll them out to Ken’s weblog, the 3+ new […]

Is there an AJAX guru in the house?

OK, so I’m trying to install the OpenRico accordion trick to the lower left component of this page, but I’m not having any luck. It works fine on their demo page, so I’m not sure what I’m missing. Are there any AJAX wonks in the house that could throw me a bone here? Please?

Is this thing on?

Just trying something out. Move along, there’s nothing to see here.

Dust, radio silence, and recent events.

So things around here are going to be covered in sawdust for the next little while. I’m making some sorely-needed upgrades to a bunch of different things, moving some stuff around, and conducting a couple of experiments. Things lately have been crazy busy (what else is new, right?) what with my five-year college reunion three […]

Funny, it seems a little early in the season for ‘sweltering’.

Omigod, it’s 5:30 PM and 91 degrees in Chicago, and my big computer rig is in the part of the apartmenty the furthest away from my air conditioner. I’d move the air conditioner but I think the combination of that sucker’s power draw and the big rig would blow a major fuse. Fark. Guess there’s […]