We’ve got .tv and soon we’ll have .mobi. Late May will see the beginning of .mobis being registered by companies with trademarks, and then general registrations in August. Dotmobi is unique – the first top level domain dedicated to delivering the Internet to mobile devices. Scheduled for launch in May, dotmobi will revolutionise the use … Read moreDevice Domain Names
Nielsen Media Research teamed their research with Comcast’s to establish data on audience usage of VOD. They tested 180 households in Philadelphia during June-August last year. The key finding, for me, is that audiences are still using VOD AND scheduled TV — I don’t like using “scheduled TV” as part of the TV experience, for me, is serendipity: how … Read moreAudience Update: VOD, TV & Net
If you haven’t already noticed, Europe is the place to be if you’re creating, researching or experiencing CME. It is not surprising considering the technology available in the home (and therefore the services then supplied to audiences). Here is a list of some of the sites about CME by those living in Europe: Monique de Haas’ blog, Netherlands Jill Walker’s blog, … Read moreIts all happening in Europe
Henry Jenkins was one of the first media theorists to identify the subject of my research and and what he terms “transmedia storytelling”. He is co-heading a dedicated research lab at MIT now, called the Convergence Culture Consortium. The Consortium is geared towards, it seems, providing data to industry as well as contributing to scholarship. … Read moreMIT has a dedicated Transmedia Storytelling Lab!
Apparently, according to all the hype, the first feature film, shot entirely on mobile phones, has been created. SMS Sugarman (the site is down) is by Aryan Kaganof of Virus Films. It is a film that follows one night of a pimp (played by Kaganof) and his two prostitutes, in Johannesburg. Kaganof shot 60 hours of footage on … Read moreFirst Mobile Phone Feature Film
The Media Centre’s blog, Morph, has morphed. It has grown into a multi-threaded blog called Morph-the media Center conversation. The threads, or tracks, have a large collection of “official” contributors and are themed as: We Influence Public Relations & Marketing We Imagine Technology & Narrative We Lead Public Policy & Politics We Live Behaviors, … Read moreIndustry blog on Narrative & Technology
*** Update: 4th March 2006: This post updated with extensive data here *** One thing industry likes is Top Tens. They like to see at a glance what are the top services, etc. No wasting time figuring out which ones are more successful, just a list of the top ten according to usage and/or ROI. … Read moreTop Eleven ARGs
After my slow uptake on “The Secret” I will now blog AS SOON AS I HEAR SOMETHING. So, here is the news about some new distributed story/games that were announced in the last couple of days. [Okay, I still didn’t know about them before the public, but this is better than 3 months after the … Read more"The Next Broadcast Network"
News from MocoNews: Channel 4 is running a website called FourDocs. FourDocs is the “place to upload, watch and learn about documentary“. It is addressing the desire for audiences to create their own shows, learn about filmmaking, share their view of the world, and their stories. Audiences have been jumping on uploading video clips, viral … Read moreCross-Media, UGC, Emerging Media, there isn't enough room for the hot words to describe this…
I usually get my videos of games (trailers & developer interviews) through GameSpot and watch ControlFreaksTV for some of the buzz; but I just rediscovered (I’ve been plenty of times but haven’t actually utilised it) the Internet Archive. They have a section on game videos, which includes valuable stuff from “old” games: The Internet Archive’s … Read moreGame video resources