Transmedia Properties  Paul Levitz, Michael Lebowitz, Alex Chisholm Moderator: Henry Jenkins What are the resistance points to transmedia?  Alex: transmedia is the intersection of TV and UGC.  It is the cost…the economics of creating things across the media is difficult.  It is very expensive given unions/guilds need to have a piece of the […]
Transmedia Properties part 1- Futures of Entertainment
Transmedia Properties  Paul Levitz, Michael Lebowitz, Alex Chisholm Moderator: Henry Jenkins What is transmedia? Paul: if transmedia was taking an idea and putting it across different channels – as an owner.  Aobut 1710, copyright emerged. Mary Midnight, Christopher Smart in 1749-1752, a book and stageplay. In US, J Fenimore Cooper, novel in 1821 and […]
UGC2 – Futures of Entertainment
Notes from lat 90mins Q: interested in the gameworld economics. Games were initially one track, single developers, now we keep expanding, now MMORG, more user generated.  Game developers are stepping back; where do you think the developers will end up? Will users have more control?   How do we move forward with game currency?  People do […]
the bubbleproject – Jee Li introduction
Jee Li just gave a quick run through of the bubbleproject.
Futures of Entertainment – User Generated Content
Notes….after first 45mins. User Generated Content Caterina Fake, Ji Lee, Rob Tercek, Kevin Barrett Caterina: we are coming back to a time when the producer and the consumer are one. People make their own content. The big bands are not a natural state of affairs…UGC is a return to this kind of activity. Rob: participatory […]
Futures of Entertainment – Television Futures
This is the first session from the Futures of Entertainment conference taking place at MIT this weekend. THis has been corrected for spelling not for sense. Television Futures Andy Hunter, Mark Warshaw, Josh Bernoff, Betsy Morgan Set the scene: Josh: speaking from a perspective of thinkers..people who have ideas about media. analysed this for 10 […]
Post Conference Questionaires
Do you know those post conference requests to tell them how they did? The ones that end up in the back of the packs or get emailed out. Sometimes it’s worth filling them in.  Following the IAB day I went to a few weeks back, I filled in their questionnaire and it turned out I […]
Time to make an impression
4 seconds is all it takes.  New research looking at first impressions of e-commerce sites found that users make their mind up about the site within 4 seconds, which is half the time it took in a few years ago.  As connection speed increases, so does people expectations. No longer are you prepared to wait […]
Headline writing
Sometimes, you find a piece of writing that can only come from one country. Here’s a story about the shortage of sperm donors in England and how the National Gamete Donation trust are proposing using mobile collection trucks outside major sporting events. The headline: “English Football Fans can now Prove who is the Biggest Wanker”
Livegames – The Prague Network
I’ve signed up to play The Prague Network from the Livegames Network.  They;ve previously run something similar in Melbourne, Australia which looked interesting.   Played over 2 weeks, requiring an SMS phone, email and web access it could be fun.  But as ArgNet discusses, as it requires a subscription ($6.95) and a US address will it […]
Appropriate langauge
The magistrate has a post listing some of the terms that are deemed inappropriate when addressing people. it includes all the usual terms that are deemed politically incorrect or offensive. It also includes things like ‘love, pet, dear’, but no ‘hen’ which is the generic term found in wonderful places like Clackmannanshire.    The give no […]
Connected
Yea! Finally got web connection from home but only at a poor 2MB or there abouts, I feel so sloooowwww again after the 8 in the UK. No blogging done, but plenty of TV programmes watched.
Nike Golf destroys things
Nike Golf have decided that the best way to market their new golf balls is to blast them at objects and film the resulting destruction in slo-mo. Great videos, aimed at convincing people that if only they buy these balls, they will be able to hit them hard enough to do such damage. You can […]
Lovebites
The agency where I work have been busy producing a series of 2-3min shorts, called Lovebites, that are being shown 5x/week in TBS here in the US, in partnership with Sunsilk. They focus on the life of a 25yo as she develops a relationship with her new man. A few episodes were filmed that would […]
Perils of International Banking
In the US, I’ve mainly been living in a cash world.  I have a credit card, but I keep it for big purchases, never using it for day to day stuff.   My debit card expires the end of this month and I’d arranged for one to be sent out earlier so I could guarantee getting […]
YouTube: Time Invention of the Year
Yes, the writers at Time do know the actual site went live last year. But they are celebrating the sheer power of the people who have made the site their own. “But even though they built it, they didn’t really understand it. They thought they’d built a useful tool for people to share their travel […]
DRM, Zune and Microsoft
How to piss many customers off and confuse many others.  Anyone who buys a Zune from Microsoft is not going to be able to play tracks they have bought from Microsoft.  There’s why digital files should not be locked in but be in neutral, cross platform compatible formats – so you don’t lose the value.
Phones on Planes?
No. Please no.  At least put themin a booth or something so the rest of us don’t have to hear them say ‘guess where i am, on a plane’.
Big Brother In Second Life
I’m not sure whether I think this is innovative or downright scary but Big Brother is moving into Second Life.  Check out the trailer, which appears to be the sales pitch for the franchise and does not mention the SL version. In the virtual version, they are looking for 15 people in 3 time zones […]
Million Dollar Spaceship
The Million Dollar Homepage was successful and was immediately followed by plenty of imitators, none of whom achieved the same notoriety. No-one had a really new take on it. But now I think we have one in Your Name into Space. MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and the Georgia Institute of Technology Space Systems Design […]