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13 Mar 2014

Spies Like Me: My Response to IARPA’S RFI UAREHERE

Last week I received an unusual email from IARPA, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, a research agency under the…

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03 Nov 2013

Are Web Series TV online?

At a recent conference in LA,* a producer on a panel to an audience of convergent content creators boldly declared that web series should just be called series, dropping the…

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10 Sep 2013

Learning From Orson

Understanding “Audiences” in Transmedia & Web Series A friend of mine, Robert Mills (Big Comfy Couch, Ruffus the Dog) recently called attention to this gem of a video with Orson Welles explaining the function of audiences and how to tame…

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04 Jul 2013

Case Study: 10 Genius Tactics from The LBD Campaign

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (LBD) web series astounded many people, not only with its breakout mainstream success, but its record-breaking Kickstarter campaign to become at one point the fourth top successful…

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01 Jan 2013

Epic Year in Review

Wow…2012 was pretty epic. Particularly the last half. Here is my highlight reel: 1. First I started off the year…

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26 Dec 2012

Storyworlds: A False Framework

The Storyworld framework [1] serves many useful purposes when thinking about transmedia and strategizing for many transmedia properties. For one, it provides a useful catchall that marries story + technology…

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26 Dec 2012

Smash Worlds

This is a story about finding lost. Allow me to begin with a disruption, an interruption of form, to throw you off your horse, throw you down, and hopefully, by…

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21 Dec 2012

Storyworlds: A Need for A New Model

The challenge for those utilizing the Storyworld Hollywood franchise model (particularly those who are independent creatives) is then to aspire to an insurmountable and unattainable pinnacle of immersion and pervasion…

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06 Dec 2012

Is Rape Never Funny?

As a storyteller who often sifts through the blender grind of my existence: the pulpy mash and grit of my childhood, history and culture, I am of the firm belief…

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02 May 2012

10 Things I Learned From Story Hack

Last week I met and teamed up with three virtual strangers to create a transmedia spectacle to live three platforms…

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