- Cultural Studies sale. Oooh, the good stuff for cheap…
- Why magazines are useless. Courtesy of HarperStudio’s 26th Story.
- A monetized Twitter feed? Interesting concept.
- An introduction to genre theory. Thanks, Julie!
- Doug Seibold on indie publishing. Really intriguing piece from Slate.
- Fiction reading increases for adults. Now there’s something you don’t hear very often.
- Clay Shirky’s predictions for 2009. “2009 is going to be a bloodbath.” Great.
- American Gods and London literary novelists. Amen.
- Pratchett knighted. Sir Terrence of Pratchett! Huzzah!
- Weird Tales appreciates Gaiman. Hear, hear.
- How Boccaccio would survive the credit crunch. Debauchery!
- How Twitter will change blog design in ’09. On it, thanks.
- Tweetbacks? So it begins.
- Facebook vs. MySpace: the numbers. Mmm, chewy data.
- Steampunk dangerous to your health? Radioactive jewelry = HOT.
- Junot Diaz day? This is getting surreal.
- Goss & Barzak on “living life to the fullest.” Me, I’m supersaturated.
- 462 books in 365 days. I wonder if I could do that.
- Eric Idle on John Cleese’s writing style. Hysterical.
- The Atlantic on the end times of print. Yadda, yadda, yadda.
- London Review of Books on video games. Still parsing this one.
- Salon on Bittman. God, I love The Minimalist.
- Juggling work and writing. Well… Kinda.
- Kazu Kibuishi finishes Amulet 2. Woot!
- NYT: How to publish without perishing. “The book is like a hammer.”
- Geektastic! Damn, what a lineup!
- Powazek: Ignore the content. The new Clute-less Sci-Fi Wire still sucks.
- RIP Ricardo Montalban. Khaaaan!
- Scalzi goes through the Stargate. Eeeeeen-teresting.
- TYBF&H is no more. Damn, first Endicott and now this.
- Rise and fall of the metal airship. See above re: steampunk.
- Fortune: Iger rocks Disney. I’ve been impressed so far.
- GENREALITY. Watch this space.
- Getting started with Arduino. Things to tinker with someday #522.
- Kleptoplasty. I need to remember this for rewriting Green.
- Viable Paradise writer’s workshop. Damn, that could be fun.
- Y Kant Alice Read (Novels). I sympathize.
- Read it and weep. Man, this is getting depressing.
- Tachyon on slipstream, steampunk and Disch. “We’re all about niche publishing.”
- The curse/joy of academic interdisciplinarity. “Who’s the future?”
- Finding value in author websites. Like this one?
- Doctorow on writing in the age of distraction. Huh? What was that?
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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