The Australian Film, Television and Radio School has asked me to come in a give a lunchtime seminar on Cross-Media Entertainment. It is for practitioners across the whole school but outsiders are welcome to come too. Tomorrow at 1pm. Apologies for the late notice as I was waiting for the very sexy poster that you … Read moreTalk on Cross-Media Entertainment at AFTRS
Just received the delivery of my first in-world purchase: Julian Dibbell’s book on living off virtual money Play Money. I bought it and the virtual version at the virtual store with virtual money (Lindens) in the virtual world of Second Life. This is a bundled product where for 1 purchase I get the virtual and real … Read moreVirtual Store, Virtual Money, Real Book, Real Delivery to a Real Person (unfortunately)
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I’ve been watching the new jtv vodcasts and I think the comedy section, called Hello Future, is very funny. They basically make fun of the interactive television that we don’t have. It is set in the 80s apparently. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to the show on YouTube or anywhere and I’m not going to … Read moreThe future is funny
I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the great work that Julie Meloni and Jeremy Douglass did on creating the first Academic Citation Generator for blogs (at present only WordPress). I was part of the testing and did have it installed on my blog but forgot it when I changed servers. So, here … Read moreAcademic Citation Generator Back
I announced just recently that I work in SL as a journalist and that the magazine, SLATENight, is now online. Well now you can download a pdf of the magazine. I was also interviewed for ABC’s Radio National programme: Background Briefing a couple of weeks ago. The segment is about virtual money etc and is … Read moreSecond Life Update: me on radio & a pdf
The paper I wrote for the upcoming Association of Internet Researchers Conference: Internet Convergences, How the Internet is Holding the Center of Conjured Universes, is now online. The Internet is an indisputably influential force in changes to the way entertainment is conceived, produced, distributed, experienced and critiqued. Little is known, however, about how the Internet is used … Read moreMy paper is now online: the role of the Net in cross-media entertainment
Church of the Customer have a great post on the 5 Lessons For Marketers. Film producers, have a look.
In stark contrast to the rollicking and genuine experience of the Kevin Smith launch at the State Theatre in Sydney last night, was the club launch of Yahoo!7’s new online interactive drama: PS Trixi. The new property, a multi-platform drama with an Internet pivot point, is officially launched on August 28th but you can see … Read moreAustralia's 1st Online Drama!, again
I was lucky to have the opportunity to not only see the special launch of Kevin Smith’s Clerks II in Australia last night 9 days before it hits the cinemas, but…wait for it…I was at the Q&A session with Kevin Smith — the first time he has ever been to Australia!!! OMG! It was an … Read moreKevin Smith Snookers everyone with MySpace Rewards