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.
So here’s a gripe – why is it that despite the growing popularity of applications like iPhoto to manage one’s photo library, there seem to be no ‘keyword’ or ‘description’ tags in the EXIF metadata for photographs? Or am I missing something?
So I’ve recently had a whole flurry of people asking me about photography websites, which is cool – I’ve done them before, but a bunch of recent developments on the scene (Flickr, SlideShowPro, etc.) have led me to believe that it is now possible to bulid some truly exciting things for this particular industry. This […]
So this week is Yahoo!’s 10th birthday. As a part of their celebration, they’ve posted their homepage, circa 1995. I loaded that page up and suddenly I was sitting in the library at The College of Wooster, poking around on one of their few web-enabled terminals, reading Wired with near-religious fervor (hey Derek, remember they […]
So I’m reading this great AIGA LA interview with Todd Dominey and I stumble across the following passage: Q: You’ve become a pretty accomplished scripter, programmer, tweaker … for Flash in particular. Does the technical fluency your output requires feel at odds with the mindset you need to be a creative designer? Here’s what I’ve […]
I’m not sure exactly what it is – maybe it’s my discovery of the new Cirque du Soleil Ka site this afternoon, but something has kicked my imagination into high gear. Here are some of the ideas that have been flickering across my mind tonight: Kelele Mbosa is the returned soul of the last of […]
So there’s a new app called Airfoil that lets you stream any audio feed to an AirPort Express station. Seems like a good idea to me. What bugs me about it, though, are these passages from their FAQ: Why does the audio lag? Â Â Â Because of the way the AirPort Express works, there’s a delay from […]
February 28, 2005 – 5:38 pm
So I’m sitting here in the apartment, and there’s a light snow outside, and I find myself wondering, “Hey! Why is it so bloody cold in here?” And then I realized that it’s been oddly quiet all day. As in, the radiators haven’t been banging and clanging. What. The. Hell.
February 26, 2005 – 1:41 pm
So this week I’ve finally started to solve the multicomputer problem. I’d been working on all kinds of different ideas for how to handle syncing my data between my different machines, and finally – with the help of John Hicks I hit upon the solution – queue up the PowerBook as a FireWire drive and […]
February 25, 2005 – 4:22 pm
So I mentioned Jason Kottke’s jump to full-time blogging in passing over in the sideblog, and I was going to let it go at that. Yet kottke.org kept popping up in my thoughtflow here this week. for a number of different reasons. The biggest reason is that I’m contemplating ripping off his posting style. See, […]
February 22, 2005 – 9:11 am
Things here are pretty quiet at the moment. Had a fantastic weekend with the Kenyon crowd, but now I’m back to the daily grind and hammering like crazy. It’s 32 degrees and foggy in Chicago. Am considering replacing the top of this weblog with a photo of Maui.
