- NYT on Scholastic’s The 39 Clues. Go Karen go!
- Special Gaiman issue of ImageText. Very, very cool.
- Ryan Adams, rock star/novelist. Verdict withheld until reading.
- Warner Bros. launches HTheWB.com. Searchable, indexed eps. Mmmm.
- Top Shelf $3 specials. This is gonna get pricey.
- Speculation about the
iPodZune. An “emotional unit”? Seriously? - Musicians saying no to iTunes. Morons. It was a singles business decades ago.
- The Simon & Schuster Society. Save Superman’s home!
- Roger Ebert’s How to Read a Movie. Duly noted and filed away.
- Etsy’s mini-comics. Gotta get on this soon.
- Reclaiming the Comic Book Canon. Damned tempting, this.
- David Pogue on Google’s Chrome. I can’t wait to try this thing out.
- Scott McCloud on Google’s Chrome. Freaking genius, this. Hmmm.

Storyteller, scholar, consultant. Loving son, husband and father. Kindhearted mischief-maker.
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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