Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Category Archives: Media

IPTV and Apple TV.

I am curious as to why there haven’t been more fictional narratives told in the form of video podcasts and iTunes. I’m uninterested in fictional narratives told as weblog entries, and am much more interested in the use of podcasts for delivery of independent serialized stories. The release of the Apple TV device is intriguing […]

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Buffett on Newspapers.

I have a ton of windows to close today, so I’m going to post a barrage of little entries. TO start: Warren Buffett: Newspapers are “a business in permanent decline”. Not exactly news, but interesting to hear it from the Oracle of Omaha himself.

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On Charles Addams.

A little late for Halloween, but very cool nevertheless: an excerpt from biographer Linda Davis’ Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life over on NPR. A man after my own heart.

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Welcome to Brackenwood.

I spent a ton of time this morning looking for good examples of original creative work being published online (instead of merely posting clips from existing anime DVDs) and, courtesy of Aaron Simpson’s Top 10 Most Influential Online Flast Shorts, I stumbled across Adam Phillips’ Brackenwood, which is a series of short, creepy-fun animations perfect […]

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THESIS: Buffy season 8 in comics!

A quick note for my THESIS: Buffy the Vampire Slayer is doing the Transmedia Shuffle with its upcoming comics-only Season 8. Written by Joss, art by Georges Jeanty.

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BioWare comes to mobile media.

Neat. According to Sci-Fi Wire, BioWare is moving into handheld gaming, specifically the Nintendo DS: “hand-held technology is now at a point where we can create those rich and amazing adventures that we’ve had in mind for some time,” Dan Tudge, project director of the BioWare Handheld Game Group, told SCI FI Wire. Hand-held gamers […]

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Xbox Live Arcade: Microsoft’s real trojan horse.

Some people get all excited by flashy titles like Gears of War, but I’m convinced that the real hidden goldmine in the next-gen systems are games like Castle Crashers from The Behemoth (the same guys who did Alien Hominid). As soon as I saw the footage from PAX, I knew this was a game I […]

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Second Story in The New York Times.

My favorite web-dev shop in the world gets a nifty writeup in today’s NYT: History and Science: The Video Games profiles Second Story, as “how it invents techniques to use these platforms, and who it recruits to do that work is a journey that large media companies should watch”. Just yesterday I was making up […]

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Great Caesar’s ghost, I made Grand Text Auto!

I’m sitting here in the studio enjoying a self-congratulatory bottle of Sam Adams’ Oktoberfest. Why, you ask? I don’t often Technorati myself, but I did so this morning and discovered that I snagged a mention in Nick Montfort and Noah Wardruip-Fruin’s Grand Text Auto, which is a kickass “group blog about machine narrative, games, poetry, […]

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NPR details its Online Music Service.

Not sure how I feel about this, but it has the potential to be extremely cool: according to this article, NPR’s new online service “will launch in first half of 2007, and will ‘create a unified place to showcase all genres on present and future media platforms.’ The new effort will be a supersite pooling […]

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