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Monthly Archives: January 2009
January 30, 2009
11:49 am
Thanks to the hard work of my old friend Bill Coughlan and our film troupe Tohubohu Productions, I have recently had an old dream realized. I am now in the IMDB. The film that got me there is The Big Lie That Solves Everything, the third short film I produced with Tohubohu and our entry […]
Gaiman wins the Newbery. Still chuffed. Nike Coraline Dunks. Man, I want some of these. Vandermeer on strange noir. Next steampunk? VDM on strange noir II. New Miéville? Want! Eureka Unscripted returns. Now where’s the show? Sterling on the Republic of Letters. Eerie, that is. Dora Goss on James and Wells. Post-Victorian lit vs. pop/pulp. […]
I have a new post up today over at the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium weblog, “The Future of Entertainment is… Paper?” In it, I basically stare agog at the awesomeness that is PaperCamp, a one-day event that went down on January 17th in London and that I’m kicking myself for having missed. At the end […]
Man, I hate hearing about an awesome conference just after the thing’s wrapped up. So it is this week with PaperCamp, which went down in London on January 17th. Here’s the description of the event from its own webpage: What is PaperCamp? A get-together for a day to talk about, fiddle with, make and explore […]
I’m still hugely pleased that Neil Gaiman has won the Newbery Medal for The Graveyard Book, which I would confidently call the best thing he’s written since American Gods. (For those of you who don’t get the title of this post, ‘Nobody’ is the name of the Mowgli-esque protagonist, so… Oh, never mind.) I’m also […]
We’re proud to announce that two of our people here at the GAMBIT US lab will be presenting talks at this year’s Game Developers’ Conference in San Francisco! Postdoctoral researcher Doris C. Rusch will be presenting on “Profound Game Design: a Postmortem of Akrasia” and lecturer/researcher Jesper Juul will be presenting on “Beyond Balancing: Using […]
(Note: I should preface this bit of writing with a warning: what follows is a first attempt to set down some things I’ve been struggling to articulate for the past couple of years. As such, it may be slightly less than ideally coherent, but hopefully out of it some clarity will emerge.) What is literature? […]
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January 19, 2009
11:44 pm
This might seem like a small thing, but it’s actually indicative of a bigger thing. Tonight I changed the ‘Miscellany’ section of this site to Consulting and moved the “Presentations and Lectures” page into the Writing section. Longtime friends and clients will note that, unlike my old consulting site that is (at least for now) […]
January 17, 2009
10:36 am
Continuing in the same vein as before, I’ve now managed to the get Movable Type’s new Facebook Connect plugin up and running on this blog. If you’ve wanted to comment on something here but have been deterred in the past, give this a shot and see if it works for you! I’ve also installed Shaun […]
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 […]
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