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Transmedia storytelling, and the multi-dimensional brand

Saturday, August 29th, 2009In his book Convergence Culture, Henry Jenkins explores the idea and concept of transmedia storytelling through the project known as The Matrix.[caption id="attachment_4307" align="aligncenter" width="501" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7236030@N03/2106087852"][/caption]As Jenkins explains,A transmedia story unfolds across multiple platforms, with each new text making a ...

Straight line thinking stops here @ sxsw 2010

Thursday, August 20th, 2009I have submitted a proposal for the SXSW conference 2010 - it is based upon the research I have been doing over the last 10 years and forms the basis to the hybrid book / digital service I am developing ...

The digital elixir of commerce

Thursday, July 30th, 2009The consultancy kzero.co.uk reports that membership of virtual worlds grew by 39% in the second quarter of 2009 to an estimated 579 million. Not all these members are active but I can't think of anything, anywhere, that has grown so ...

Kindle & 1984

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009Jamias Cascio brings his own dimension to the Amazon Kindle story - he writesNow, as I've mentioned a few times, I have a Kindle. I'm reasonably happy with it, and I bought it with open eyes about the implications of ...

Surfing waves of change (lose yourself to find yourself)

Monday, July 20th, 2009Recently, I met a remarkable young woman called Jane Young, who hails for the Shetland Islands and also runs Scrmblr. I immediately admired her passion for wanting to do something different in this world and she is definitely a part ...

Cambridge struggling to turn science into commerce?

Friday, July 17th, 2009Susan Bratton of DishyMix (what a great name!) has posted an overview of the Travelling Geeks day in CambridgeSusan makes this observation,Cambridge is strong in the sciences and computer technology. They have a Angel and VC infrastructure. They have consulting ...

Bottoms up for democracy

Friday, May 1st, 2009In the past decade the ability of governments to cooperate has radically declined. Unfortunately, this decline has collided with the recognition that there are major problems that can only be addressed effectively by common international responses. This disturbing divergence of ...

The elegant universe

Monday, April 20th, 2009I am doing some research for the No Straight Line project and spent this afternoon looking at String theoryString theory is a developing branch of theoretical physics that combines quantum mechanics and general relativity into a quantum theory of gravity. ...

Economic models for newsbrands

Sunday, April 19th, 2009Three journalists, publicly, have been proposing new models for newspapers' financial survival in the face of Google's aggregating all web-based articles writes Andrew Whiteacre. The three articles are submitted by David Carr, Maureen Dowd, and David Denbyof the three, only ...

Public engagement and context in the key of life

Sunday, April 19th, 200971% of adults used to play on the streets when they were young. 21% of children do so now. Are we designing children and play out of the public realm?This project is a study into different ways of bringing play ...

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