Wired have a nice write-up about the team behind LonelyGirl15, looking at the background and possible future. The article mentions a few things that helped the success along, how they responded to the fans and how they managed the revelation that Bree was not ‘real’. they kept within legal bounds by not trying to sell […]
Primetime Online – watching the networks on the web
Due to my lack of electronic goods, my TV watching has been restricted to waht I can find and play on the laptop. Now, yes, downloads would give me copies to keep, but sometimes the instant gratification is what I need so I turned to the networks and their forays into online programming to see […]
And some bad service
I had read about how bad Time Warner cable were but did not really expect it to be this bad. The first issue was the inability of being able to turn up within the 4 hour time span allotted to the order. The guy was only 20 minutes late, but it would have been far […]
Some recommendations
From my trip to Boston at the weekend I would recommend The Gryphon House Bed And Breakfast, in Back Bay. Friendly staff, lovely rooms, nice breakfasts. It’s not in downtown but the subway station is just round the corner and from my perspective the MIT campus was in easy walking distance. And if you are […]
Virtual Worlds – Futures of Entertainment
Not the Real World Anymore Virtual spaces are more than sites for emulating the real world. They are becoming platforms for thought experiments — some of which involve fantasies we would not like to enact in the real world, others involve possibilities that we may want to test market before putting into practice. Much more […]
Fan Cultures – Futures of Entertainment
The first session today is on Fan Cultures. Once seen as marginal or niche consumers, Fan communities look more ‘mainstream’ than ever before. Some have argued that the practices of web 2.0 are really those of fan culture without the stigma. Courted, encouraged, engaged and acknowledged, fans are more and more frequently being recognized as […]
Opening Remarks – Futures of Entertainment
Josh Green gave the introduction speach this morning – Viscerality and Convergence.  A very image driven presentation so no live notes taken.   The key message is about the reactions to technology; how we bash hit and play technology until it makes our rules. Look at the reactions, in images, the doctoring of the advertising, that […]
Futures of Entertainment Day 2
Waiting for Day 2 of the conference to start, hopefully my arms will stand up to more typing today.  We only have 2 sessions, the first on Fan Cultures and the second on virtual spaces. The speaker list is over here and the conference blog is here.
Transmedia – Futures of Entertainment
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.