Wohoo! It is here! The International Game Developers Association Alternate Reality Game Special Interest Group Whitepaper ( * whew * ) has been released! Here is Adam Martin's announcement from the ARG SIG listserv: After eight months of hard work and hundreds of revisions I'm delighted to announce that the 2006 ...

Yep, they are all the topics I'll be presenting on over the next few weeks in three states across Australia. But what is even more interesting, are the co-presenters. Check out this yummy bunch of seminars: Film Australia's "Evan Jones Masterclass: Extending Doco in the Time of Digital" Monday 20th November, 1.30-4.30pm, ...

Here is a round up of some interesting links (the first 3 I gathered from Henry Jenkins' blog): Accomplished film academics Kristin Thompson and David Bordwell have a blog; Kathleen Fitzpatrick and Avi Santo have started MediaCommons: MediaCommons, a project-in-development with support from the Institute for the Future of the Book (part of ...

The 2007 BBC Innovation Labs are now seeking 'indies' to get involved. The Innovation Labs are a series of creative workshops for interdisciplinary teams of professional creative technologists, application designers, software developers and interactive media designers. We are inviting independent new media companies from across England and Scotland to pitch ideas ...

I forgot to post about my latest SlateNight article. I review the Second Life artwork by academic and artist John Craig Freeman: Imaging Place. Here is a snippet from the article: JC Fremont, a new resident to SL, aims to discover just how art in SL can disrupt. His flesh counterpart, ...

A few months ago David Silver asked me to review a book called Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews, put together by Stephanie McLuhan and David Staines. My review, 'From X-Ray Units as Space Heaters to iPods as Storage Devices', is now online. Colleague Tama Leaver also has a review in ...