Guest on ‘Transmedia Talk’ podcast

09.23.10 Posted in Interview by

I chat with Robert Pratten and Nick Braccia about participatory entertainment and transmedia on their podcast, Transmedia Talk


My interview on Transmedia Talk

09.23.10 Posted in transmedia by

I was flattered to be a guest on the fourth installment of the Transmedia Talk podcast series hosted by Robert Pratten and Nick Braccia. We talk about new models of commercial entertainment, participatory entertainment, and (of course!) transmedia storytelling, and Haley Moore and Dee Cook give a rundown of the latest ARG experience from NoMimes [...]


Guest on DBW’s ‘What is a Publisher?’

09.23.10 Posted in Interview by

I participate in a webcast roundtable hosted by Digital Book World that explores the changing definition of ‘publisher.’


The Increasingly Crowded Creative Community

09.22.10 Posted in Collaboration by

I’ve been meaning to write about this for months, and the recent MTV2 campaign for its ‘Savage County’ horror flick (plus a twitter exchange with @Simonpulman) finally prompted this brief post. It’s getting crowded in the creative communities. The concept of crowdsourcing a few years back sparked a litany of alternate-ending buzz words, with perhaps [...]


Transmedia 2.0 – Participatory Entertainment

09.16.10 Posted in transmedia by

Wait, what? 2.0? Aren’t we still figuring out transmedia 1.0? Yep. But I’m already looking beyond most of what we’ve seen in transmedia storytelling to date, which has been ‘more of the same’ in the sense that the legal and creative lines between content creators and content consumers are still very much intact for commercial [...]


‘Transmedia 2.0* – Participatory Entertainment’

09.16.10 Posted in Presentation by

This presentation suggests looking beyond transmedia storytelling as merely a new way to deliver entertainment experience.


The Symphony of Story

09.09.10 Posted in writing by

The following is a guest post from Tyler Weaver Two types of choice make up the storytelling world of today: The first is the creator’s choice: the choices that we as content creators make to build the world of the story we’re telling. The second is the audience’s choice: limitless, and changeable at the click [...]


My Multi-Hyphenate Guest Post on Transmedia Imperfection, part trois

09.07.10 Posted in transmedia by

My transmedial musings conclude over at Tyler Weaver’s Multi-Hyphenate blog, with the third and final in my series on “The Beauty of Imperfection in Transmedia.” The short series explores the idea that transmedia properties, especially collaborative ones that encourage audience contribution, need to include a certain degree of imperfection-as-incompleteness in their design. Audiences need a [...]


Transmedia, Commercial Entertainment, and UGC

09.02.10 Posted in transmedia by

The diagram above was inspired by a twitter exchange I had yesterday with Dan Novy about the relationship between canonical content, transmedia storytelling, and user-generated content (we also touched on how merchandising cuts across these three areas, something I’d like to explore in more detail later).