- The WB brings Smallville: The Oliver Queen Chronicles to phones and cwtw.com. This animated spinoff looks sharp.
- Engadget: three-wheeled hybrid does flex fuel. We’re living in the age of Tron.
- DownloadSquad on Wis.dm. A CMS alum is one of the people involved in this new site.
- How social sites reveal what your audience likes. “Using social information to measure user information is an effective way for bloggers to understand what their readers like.”
- NYT: Think Small. A 120-square-foot house on 160 acres of land?
- OmniFocus sneak preview. OmniGroup on GTD – cool.
- CS3 to drive Mac sales in 2007. April can’t come soon enough for this.
- Out of the mouths of comics. Home on the Strange rips – accurately – on Whedon.
- The future of Cartoon Network. “CallToons from Cartoon Network New Media is a new mobile application that integrates smart technology with entertainment, essentially allowing the network’s characters to take over a mobile phone.”
- The Complete POGO, designed by Jeff Smith. Smith + Kelly = excellence.
- Whedon on the comics-only eighth season of Buffy. I know I used to pooh-pooh Buffy, but there’s no zealot like a convert, hey?
- Zooey Deschanel in re-imagining of Wizard of Oz. Trillian in ruby slippers!
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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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