Henry Jenkins, the prolific writer (academic behind the MIT Convergence Consortium and Convergence Culture book among a hundred million other things) who has been blogging at Technology Review, Computer Games and recently I’ve seen him at Media Center’s ‘We Imagine’ section of Morph. Well, just this month Henry has started his own blog: Confessons of … Read moreHenry Jenkins has a personal blog!
The latest issue of The Escapist Magazine (which can be read in Second Life as well) has an article by Shannon Drake on the ARG Perplex City: Breaking the Fourth Wall. Ignore the first page with unhelpful comments such as ARGs “are growing up, moving away from experiments and marketing gimmicks” (referring to The Beast, Majestic … Read moreEscapist article on ARG Perplex City
Terra Nova reports that 15 papers on virtual worlds are online for free and easy consumption. The papers were written by students of the “Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games.” or “Games for the Web” course at Trinity University. There is a great collection of areas of investigation. I’ve had a quick … Read moreBundle o' Joy: 15 Virtual Worlds Papers
The ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge is being held in August 9-12 this year. Artists will be given the opportunity to pitch their ideas live on stage to thousands of audience members, once they get through the game that has been planned for them. C5 Quest for Success … Read moreLocative Arts, Corporate Pitching & Go-Carts
That’s right. I’m lucky to have been asked, nominated and voted in to one of Australia’s key media arts organisations: dLux Media Arts. They’ve been branching into mobile arts and multi-platform arts and that’s why I’m there. I’m working with the excellent team they’ve assembled, including Jamie Leonarder (of SBS Movie Show fame) and the … Read moreI'm on the Board of dLux!
I haven’t been blogging about the projects I work on or projects I follow intimately. For some I cannot until they are in the public domain and others I just, dunno, haven’t. Well, that is silly. There is a project I’m involved in, a thriller film, that will be inviting a lot of participation in … Read moreA glimpse into what I do behind doors…
Well I’ve missed two events in SecondLife, that I really wanted to attend, because I’m rimming my broadband usage allocation for the month. Next month the locks are off, so I can cyplore as much as I like. In the meantime I’m feeling a bit melancholic. I had a few days recently with no … Read moreWhen you can't watch or click
I recently posted about a great MySpace parody/homage: MySpace: The Movie. Well, I just listened to a podcast of Inside the Net, where Steve Chen the CTO of YouTube was interviewed. He gave the following stats: MySpace The Movie had 5 million views within 1 week of being uploaded on YouTube; MySpace The Movie producer was … Read moreMySpace Movie and YouTube stats
As a nice followup to my recent post on SL marketing (an initiation rite that all SLers do!) Wagner James Au reports that there will be followup to the great article on Avatar-based Marketing with a panel discussion in this Friday in Second Life!: Moderated by Ansible Berkman (the indefatigable host and caretaker of Second Life’s … Read moreMarketing Panel in Second Life
The 2005 ELSPA UK Interactive Entertainment Industry Report is available now at their website [pdf]. It covers console, mobile, on-line (to some degree) and causal gaming. I found their section on why people don’t play games the most interesting. Particularly this quote: Gaming is a lifestyle pursuit which is in competition not only with other … Read more2005 ELSPA UK Gaming Report