I scare myself sometimes. I come up with crazy impossible ideas like a Social Networking Week Story Project with a different writer bringing each character to life and live scenes on Twitter. Actually, if all I did was come up with the idea, it would be fine. This idea itself isn’t crazy. It’s kind of [...]
The Social Media Week Story Project has a title: Crushing It! Crushing It! is the comic tale of a group of people whose lives and social networks become intertwined over the course of a week. The story will be collectively told by a group of professional screenwriters and others through social networking tools. The title, [...]
The Social Media Week Story Project is starting to take shape. A team is forming. Stories and characters are developing. And a plan for pulling the whole thing off is starting to fall into place. Yesterday, Karen Hill and Scott Albert sat down with me and we had a first go at wrestling this sucker [...]
Social Media Week is February 1-5, 2010. It’s an international five day event being held simultaneously in New York City, Berlin, London, San Francisco, Toronto and São Paulo to “explore the profound impact that social media has on culture, business communications and society at large.†I think it’s a great opportunity to use the social [...]
Technology has affected writers in the last 10 years. In my last post, I talked about viewing habits. Today, I’m going to look at some of the other digital developments and how they affected us. Blogs Although blogs have been around since the mid-90s, free blogging services that made it possible for anyone to blog [...]
Henry Jenkins is the man when it comes to transmedia storytelling. His blog is a great source of information about all things transmedia. He points out that there are many names for the new kinds of storytelling: deep media, cross platform and transmedia. He offers this definition of transmedia: Transmedia storytelling represents a process where [...]
I’m lucky enough to be attending my third Crossover lab with Frank Boyd which can best be described as creative heaven. This one, like the first I attended in March is presented by the Canadian Film Centre under the title NBC Universal Multimedia Matchmaking Program. These sessions are incredible weeklong creative events that bring together [...]
If you love X, check out Addidas’ graphic novel game, Teamgeist. Teamgeist involves a totally different kind of gameplay. I don’t think this is transmedia or even crossplatform because as far as I can tell it’s all housed on the single site. But it is a mixing of genres and of interest because of it. [...]
Take a look at X. It’s a graphic novel by Douglas Rushkoff. You can begin read the first installment online. The graphic novel works beautifully online. It’s quite beautiful to look at and navigating through it is a fun and interesting experience. You can also order a print version of the installment which includes additional [...]
Check out Webster’s Save the Words site. From the dictionary people, the site is a beautiful array of words in various fonts, sizes and colours crying out for you to pick them. It also encourages you to “adopt” and use older infrequently used words in order to preserve them. Or the site offers a ton [...]
