christy The current issue of Reconstruction (vol 6, no 4), Theories/Practices of Blogging, was years in the making. Michael Benton and Lauren Elkin, the editors, have been searching for papers on blogging; seaching for bloggers to commission to write on blogging and searching for bloggers to just blog about blogging. Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino and myself … Read moreTheories/Practices on Blogging
Wohoo! It is here! The International Game Developers Association Alternate Reality Game Special Interest Group Whitepaper ( * whew * ) has been released! Here is Adam Martin’s announcement from the ARG SIG listserv: After eight months of hard work and hundreds of revisions I’m delighted to announce that the 2006 ARG SIG Whitepaper is … Read moreIGDA ARG SIG Whitepaper Released!!
Yep, they are all the topics I’ll be presenting on over the next few weeks in three states across Australia. But what is even more interesting, are the co-presenters. Check out this yummy bunch of seminars: Film Australia’s “Evan Jones Masterclass: Extending Doco in the Time of Digital” Monday 20th November, 1.30-4.30pm, Film Australia’s Roxy … Read moreARGs, RPGs, Interactive Drama, Cross-Media, Serious Games, Film, Doco, Literature, Blogs and Marketing
Here is a round up of some interesting links (the first 3 I gathered from Henry Jenkins’ blog): Accomplished film academics Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell have a blog; Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Avi Santo have started MediaCommons: MediaCommons, a project-in-development with support from the Institute for the Future of the Book (part of the Annenberg … Read moreMixed Bag o' Goodies
The 2007 BBC Innovation Labs are now seeking ‘indies’ to get involved. The Innovation Labs are a series of creative workshops for interdisciplinary teams of professional creative technologists, application designers, software developers and interactive media designers. We are inviting independent new media companies from across England and Scotland to pitch ideas in response to a … Read moreBBC Innovation Labs Looking for Cross-Media Solutions
I forgot to post about my latest SlateNight article. I review the Second Life artwork by academic and artist John Craig Freeman: Imaging Place. Here is a snippet from the article: JC Fremont, a new resident to SL, aims to discover just how art in SL can disrupt. His flesh counterpart, John Craig Freeman is … Read moreArticle on SL Art and Ulmer's theories
A few months ago David Silver asked me to review a book called Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews, put together by Stephanie McLuhan and David Staines. My review, ‘From X-Ray Units as Space Heaters to iPods as Storage Devices‘, is now online. Colleague Tama Leaver also has a review in the same issue. There is … Read moreMy Review of McLuhan's Understanding Me
The Alternate Reality Gaming Network has started a podcast, well, netcast. It looks like they will be delivering ARG commentary every week, which is great news. Although the style of the show is casual, subjective chat, there are some gems for would-be ARG designers, researchers and marketers out there. So far there are two episodes … Read moreARGN Netcast
When I started in the digital effects industry as a producer I noticed that the best people in the business were distributed across companies, states and the world. You never had more a couple in the one company. I remember working discussing with AIMIA back then in the early 90s about how they can group … Read moreThe Ultimate New Marketing Company: Crayon
I found out about an ARG that had been created by some educators in Queensland and covered their research in the forthcoming (I hope it comes out soon) IGDA ARG SIG Whitepaper. Well, just yesterday I flew down to Melbourne to be the external assessor for a class that had the project of creating an … Read moreARGs in Education