Since it’s raining – again – here in Boston, I’ve elected to stay in this morning/afternoon and continue to hammer on the TOTQ integration here at geoffreylong.com. This morning I imported all my old entries from Inkblots, cleaned up the comments (removing something like 7000+ spam comments and putting some new antispam measures into effect) and tweaked the individual archives a little. Cool new feature: if you’re in an individual archive entry (click the ‘permalink’ text below to get to the individual archive entry for this post), hold down control and hit A or D. Boom! Instant forward-and-backness. Accesskey tip courtesy of Rstevens at Diesel Sweeties.
Let’s see, what else? I’ve also updated my Technorati Profile, so as to move some of these blog claims around. I’ll probably do some more work with this as the new Movable Type 3.3 beta continues to evolve; I’ve whacked TrackBacks (which didn’t seem to be offering me much more than 7000+ spam links) and am now looking for better ways to engage in conversations.
The hammering continues.
Update: I’ve also just routed my RSS feed through Feedburner. Please point your RSS readers here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TipOfTheQuill. Thanks!
Update 2: The Revenge: Visitors that came poking around late on Saturday night/Sunday morning may have noticed that I’m now one good step closer to having scheduled posts and podcasts up and running, thanks to some quality time learning how pico and cron jobs work. Thanks to my old brother Nick for the technical support!
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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