crowdsourcing

Interviewed by Emily Williams at Digital Book World – part 2

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.

My interview on Transmedia Talk

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

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 […]

Math, Magic, and Storytelling Shell Games

A writer walks into a doctor’s office. “You gotta help me, doc. I keep hearing about everyone making money from self-publishing, and everywhere I go, someone’s trying to sell me their book.” “I see,” the doctor says, nodding. “So what seems to be the problem?” “Well, I figure if everyone’s writing a book, I should […]

A History and Future of Collaborative Storytelling

This is my (un)scientific, (non-)comprehensive, and (not at all) objective overview of the rise of collaborative storytelling: how we (more or less) got here, and where we may (kinda sorta) be heading. No particular axe to grind or agenda to sell, just my observations after watching this space for a few years. Buckle up, this […]