_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 8_ Wild Nature and the Digital Life Special Issue, guest edited by Dene Grigar and Sue Thomas :: Live chat with artist/writer Jeremy Hight and architect/theorist Peter Hasdell :: Chat date: Thursday, February 1. :: 2 pm West Coast US / 5 pm East Coast ...

Joseph Jaffe, a new marketing evangelist that I've referred to a few times on this blog is in the process of writing his second book. His first, Life After the 30-Second Spot is about the shift from marketers being able to reach massive consumers through the television, indeed, the 30sec ...

Thanks to this post from Burcu I found out about this fun spoof of the Second Life website: Get a First Life, by Darren Barefoot. Very funny.

Thanks Angus for the heads up on this nice example of producer's courting the fans. On a recent episode of My Name is Earl, a character who is a forum members of Television Without Pity refers to their posts in the real life forum. Posts which have actually been posted. The character ...

In Feb a new feature film called The Host will be released. It is a scary monster film that has already won numerous Korean Film awards, including Best Film and Best Director. I just checked out the trailer and at the end was some information that if you follow up on...you'll ...

Stranger Adventures, an interactive net drama, has been running for a couple of years. It has been nominated for an Emmy twice. There is an interview with the writers by Christie Taylor at the Writers University. Here is an excerpt: How does writing for "Stranger Adventures" differ from screenwriting? This is just like ...

This will be an interesting conference. I'm interested not just in the marketing of products, but of the transmedia expansions of entertainment properties (as I've discussed here). Virtual Worlds Conference 2007 is the leading event for Fortune 500 businesses seeking to understand and maximize marketing and business strategies within virtual worlds.  Leading ...

Ah, nice mix. April last year I blogged, at WRT, about a book that had an unusual online life. The 'book' is in a card-file type format with cool bright colours and rounded corners. It is a networked book, created by the Future of the Book. The idea is that the ...

I've been checking out the new media initiatives that Penguin UK are running and I must say I am quite impressed. They've been providing audio books for a long time, and ebooks too, but they also have a blog, podcast, have a fun MyPenguin program, are now in Second Life ...

A new peer-reviewed journal of new media art has just been launched: Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures provides a forum for experimental new media projects (both critical and creative) located outside or across current disciplinary boundaries. New thinking need not follow established patterns. We at Hyperrhiz oppose the idea that knowledge must grow in ...