The wonderful Penguin UK and DeMontfort University have teamed up to create a massive wiki novel project. For the month of Feb (and beyond hopefully), anyone (including spammers you darn…!) can co-write a novel on a wiki. Here is their goal: Can a collective create a believable fictional voice? How does a plot find any … Read moreMassive wiki novel
I recently attended and presented at the First Joint International Conference on CyberGames. I was asked to write an article on the conference for RealTime. Please note that the last paragraph has been incorrectly edited. The conference was not enjoyable in spite of Scot & my workshops! Read “Playing with Reality in Virtual Worlds“. Also, RealTime … Read moreArticle on CyberGames 06
Writing the Story of the Future The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts and AFTRS invite you to a one-day seminar exploring a universe in which the book is a game without buttons. Join acclaimed US collaborators new media artist Eddo Stern and writer Jessica Hutchins; award-winning scriptwriter Simon Hopkinson; new media … Read moreWriting the Story of the Future: Adelaide
If you haven’t already seen this, check out Assistant Professor Michael Wesch’s video on how digital text has changed everything…Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us
_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 8_ Wild Nature and the Digital Life Special Issue, guest edited by Dene Grigar and Sue Thomas :: Live chat with artist/writer Jeremy Hight and architect/theorist Peter Hasdell :: Chat date: Thursday, February 1. :: 2 pm West Coast US / 5 pm East Coast USA / … Read moreOnline chat with Jeremy Hight
Joseph Jaffe, a new marketing evangelist that I’ve referred to a few times on this blog is in the process of writing his second book. His first, Life After the 30-Second Spot is about the shift from marketers being able to reach massive consumers through the television, indeed, the 30sec TVC. I’ve got it, it … Read moreBook Writing and Marketing 01
Stranger Adventures, an interactive net drama, has been running for a couple of years. It has been nominated for an Emmy twice. There is an interview with the writers by Christie Taylor at the Writers University. Here is an excerpt: How does writing for “Stranger Adventures” differ from screenwriting? This is just like writing a screenplay … Read more'Stranger Adventures' interview with the writers
Ah, nice mix. April last year I blogged, at WRT, about a book that had an unusual online life. The ‘book’ is in a card-file type format with cool bright colours and rounded corners. It is a networked book, created by the Future of the Book. The idea is that the book is presented in … Read moreLudology, Wark, Books and Halo
I’ve been checking out the new media initiatives that Penguin UK are running and I must say I am quite impressed. They’ve been providing audio books for a long time, and ebooks too, but they also have a blog, podcast, have a fun MyPenguin program, are now in Second Life and are running on online … Read morePenguin UK are on the ball
I wrote about an installation launch with a performance in the virtual world Second Life in the latest issue of SlateNight. Border Art is now online, as well as a couple of interesting articles on the philosophy of the avatar and an inworld Shakespeare performance in development. Check out SlateNight.