As with all conjured universes that have a premature ending or unpopulated grid, the Whedonverse, specifically Firefly and Serenity verse, has been persisted by fans. There are some wonderful fanfics such as the fan-made TV-series Into the Black and the live-action paromage (what I call a parody that is a homage) Mosquito. More recently there is also … Read moreThe Whedonverse Expands
Henry Jenkins has another book out: Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Essays on Participatory Culture. Here is the editorial blurb from Amazon: Henry Jenkins’ pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represented the vanguard … Read moreAnother book by Henry Jenkins: Fans, Bloggers and Gamers
SimpleTEXT *a cell phone enabled interactive performance* by Family Filter URL: http://www.simpletext.info When: Saturday, September 16, 2006 (3 pm) followed by Jonah Brucker-Cohen’s show opening at 5pm Bring your Cell phone and/or Wireless Laptop! Where: OBORO 4001, rue Berri, local 301, Montreal (Quebec) Canda, H2L 4H2 Tel: (514) 844-3250, Fax: (514) 847-0330 E-mail: oboro@oboro.net, Web … Read moreSMS Theatre: SimpleTEXT in Canada
The Australian Film, Television and Radio School has asked me to come in a give a lunchtime seminar on Cross-Media Entertainment. It is for practitioners across the whole school but outsiders are welcome to come too. Tomorrow at 1pm. Apologies for the late notice as I was waiting for the very sexy poster that you … Read moreTalk on Cross-Media Entertainment at AFTRS
Church of the Customer have a great post on the 5 Lessons For Marketers. Film producers, have a look.
I was lucky to have the opportunity to not only see the special launch of Kevin Smith’s Clerks II in Australia last night 9 days before it hits the cinemas, but…wait for it…I was at the Q&A session with Kevin Smith — the first time he has ever been to Australia!!! OMG! It was an … Read moreKevin Smith Snookers everyone with MySpace Rewards
Asi Sharabi has started doing a very helpful: a trends analysis of YouTube.
A while ago I given a brief to talk about ‘Findability’ to film & TV practitioners for the Center for Screen Business Digital Distribution Seminar Series. I spoke about the creative ways some practitioners have made themselves ‘findable’ on the Net. A pdf of my ppt is online, along with a mp3 of part of … Read moreCreative Ways to Reach Audiences
I recently posted about a great MySpace parody/homage: MySpace: The Movie. Well, I just listened to a podcast of Inside the Net, where Steve Chen the CTO of YouTube was interviewed. He gave the following stats: MySpace The Movie had 5 million views within 1 week of being uploaded on YouTube; MySpace The Movie producer was … Read moreMySpace Movie and YouTube stats
I’ve provided an overview of the different studies that have been conducted into how people are using multiple media. An update from BigResearch and their SIMM study is online [pdf]. From their email release dated 15th June: Last week in Shanghai, BIGresearch for the 3rd consecutive year presented its breakthrough media consumption model from its … Read moreSimultaneous Media Usage Update