- Warren Ellis on SF magazine sales. I love this series of posts.
- Studio Tour: New Yorker cartoonist Mick Stevens. Nice digs.
- Kevin Smith and Tim Burton talk smack. I’d’ve pegged Burton for a comics fan.
- J.K. Rowling at Harvard. Alas, I missed the speech.
- Charlie Stross at The Guardian. “Novels are one of the few remaining areas of narrative storytelling where one person does almost all of the creative heavy lifting.” True that. Comics can be another.
- TomTom nav system already running on the iPhone. Score!
- Leetle Pinch? I love Dan4th’s Schwartz lecture photos.
- Who is a public intellectual? I’d say Henry, and I’d like to be someday.
- Public Intellectuals 2.0. I need to read the linked essay, but it seems like he may have a point.
- Big Brains, Small Impact. Russell Jacoby follows up on his The Last Intellectuals.
- The rise of fan fiction and comic book culture. Agreed: Chabon’s Maps and Legends is magnificent.
- OmniFocus for the iPhone. Want!
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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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