** Last updated: 10th August, 2007** I have previously provided a quick list of mobisodes and promised to update it. Well, here is a listing of mobile drama that is, was or will be available in specific countries and worldwide. Some are shows created specifically for mobiles, others are shows that are distributed via mobile, … Read moreMobile Drama Round-Up
Sorry for the break in transmission folks. My server (which means all my websites and email) was down for 6 days! OMG! It was good actually, I’ve had the chance to disengage from my blogging and email habits and will be making some changes around here, very soon.
Jim Meskauskas puts forward a wonderfully sensible critique of the way marketers are approaching ‘integrated marketing’: What most clients, agencies and media companies/publishers don’t seem to understand is that integration is not really a media opportunity; it is a creative strategy. Yes, ladies and gentleman. Integration is not really possible in media. Media companies with … Read moreIntegration isn't Media
This would have to be one of the funniest film sites I’ve seen. It is a ‘meta site’, a site about an apparent actual site for the film Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. The film is about making the film about the novel the film is based on — whichis entirely in the style of … Read moreMeta Madness: Film Site Funnies
** Update: links to the blog, forum and discussion list here ** NBC has a reality TV show, Treasure Hunters, with an online game that is starting June 18. It is not the Treasure Hunt that Speilberg is apparently working on with Yahoo, as I’ve mentioned before, because the search engine on the NBC one … Read moreHere we go, another online web quest thingie: NBC Treasure Hunt
This month on empyre there is a discussion about ‘liquid narrative’. If you can wade through the rhetoric, there is actually some good comments being made. The topic of June at the – empyre – mailing list will be Liquid Narratives. The concept of ‘liquid narrative’ is interesting in that it allows to think about … Read more'Liquid Narrative' discussion
Well, not my bad. My Bad: 25 Years of Public Apologies and the Appalling Behavior That Inspired Them is a book written by Paul Slansky and Arleen Sorkin. They have a VidLit of the book which is quite fun, and offer a blog on apologies and you can download the MyBad song. I’ve been a … Read moreMy Bad, on video
A couple of weeks ago I gave a lengthy talk on MMOGs to the game design students at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). We ended up doing an interesting comparative analysis of Second Life and World of Warcraft. They represent probably two extremes in virtual worlds: who they attract, what players do, how the … Read moreSL and WoW: Bondage Mistresses versus Dragons
A small audience scattered among a few dozen computer laboratories gathered Saturday evening to watch the first movie to be transmitted on the Internet […] But coming as companies in the cable TV, telephone and computer industries are hot on the trail of 500-channel, all-digital TV, let history record that Saturday night marked the first … Read moreFirst Ever Feature Film On the Internet
Please distribute the following call to places you think appropriate: ================ Needed: Academics who have investigated Alternate Reality Games I’m writing a section on ARGs and Academia for the upcoming International Game Developers Association Alternate Reality Game Special Interest Group Whitepaper (IGDA ARG SIG). I?m after approaches from all fields using all sorts of methodologies, and by researchers … Read moreCall for ARG Academics