Interview at Turnstyle News

04.15.11 Posted in Interview by

Noah Nelson at Turnstyle News interviews me about participatory entertainment, shared story worlds, and transmedia. http://turnstylenews.com/2011/04/14/shared-story-worlds-scott-walker-artist-series-podcast/


Shared Story World is up!

03.28.11 Posted in Shared Story Worlds by

I’m thrilled to (finally!) launch a project very near and dear to my heart: Shared Story Worlds. The site has been live for a while, but I’m officially launching it today. Here’s what it’s all about: “Shared Story Worlds explores new models, frameworks, and best practices for creating, curating, sustaining, and maintaining collaborative entertainment properties [...]


Interview at Publishing Perspectives

01.28.11 Posted in Interview by

Daniel Kalder interviews me for Publishing Perspectives about participatory entertainment and handling intellectual property rights within collaborative commercial entertainment.


New Presentation: ‘From Works to Worlds’

11.30.10 Posted in Miscellaneous by

Finally published the high-concept presentation on a new way to think about entertainment that takes a medium-agnostic approach to sourcing content, a transmedia approach to world-building and management, and a co-creative approach to value generation by encouraging audience participation in content creation. While the concept is built on the influences of countless books, blogs, and [...]


Interviewed by Emily Williams at Digital Book World – part 2

11.16.10 Posted in Runes of Gallidon by

The second part of my interview with Digital Book World‘s Emily Williams is now up: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2010/life-at-the-bleeding-edge-of-collaboration/ This part focuses on Brain Candy, LLC‘s first collaborative commercial entertainment property, Runes of Gallidon. Thanks to Emily and the DBW team for highlighting new models of entertainment creation! You can read part one of the interview here.


Interviewed by Emily Williams at Digital Book World

11.08.10 Posted in Brain Candy by

I was recently interviewed by Digital Book World‘s Emily Williams, and the first part of that interview is now up at DBW: http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2010/collaborative-communities-transmedia-evolved/ It was a lot of fun to speak with Emily. In addition to writing for DBW, she’s also the co-chair of the Book Industry Study Group’s Rights Sub-Committee. Since much of the [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]