“It’s tempting to shout ‘Stop It! The truth is that television in Britain is commissioned by middle-aged people who rarely watch the box, attempting to reach young people who look at it even less, when it’s actually watched by old people. Twenty to twenty five year olds aren’t sitting goggle-eyed for one very good reason: [...]

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I haven’t been able to log into Sony’s PS3 home yet but have been fascinated in the trickle of videos onto YouTube showing first usage in the past two days. There are many posts over the last 2 years about PS3Home on this blog and it is great to finally see it come out of [...]

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Another selection of my items cross-posted from another of my original blogs, lamp watercooler.
The Ulitmate Mashup Launches - Sport, MMOG & Social Virtual World - 16 Oct 08

Football Superstars is the world’s first Virtual Football World. An entire online virtual world designed by football fans exclusively for football fans, where you can enjoy a massively [...]

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What is Mixed Reality, why is it relevant and has TV become it’s background medium of choice for larger numbers of media consumers who around the world are spending more time in online pursuits than glued to the content breaks in-between the advertising slots of commercial TV. How will TV survive in a world where [...]

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I gave an early 9-10.15am keynote presentation to the trendy young filmmaker folk at SPAA fringe on Saturday. It was received well by all who I spoke to and on the grapevine. It built on the many case studies shown by Peter Broderick in his two sessions highlighting a range of filmmakers selling DVDs off [...]

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Been a bit lapse in not posting other talks I have been giving around Oz so these are just in time. A range from Cross-Social-Media, Mixed Reality, Games/Film and the Creative Web…

Thursday 23rd October, 2008  - DebateIT: All the web’s a stage!
Join us as we debate whether the internet is helping unleash creativity. What opportunities [...]

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Have we reached a tipping point - with many more user hours spent with games than films are they now more culturally relevant (as in our cultures are saturated with them)? With most films having ‘game-like’ story arcs and, at the last count, nearly 80 films with stories based on game titles in production [...]

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OK I had better blog this ‘press release‘ copied below which quotes me, but also as I am heavily involved in the creation of these courses and still running LAMP (the innovation unit at AFTRS). Frankly it is one of the best things to happen in Australian industry education for the last three years that [...]

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A selection of mini posts I did in the last few weeks on the slightly 101 LAMP Watercooler blog…
Will they Flock to Electric Sheep’s SVW Browser?
Interesting enterprise development from California based, Electric Sheep Company (notable for doing branded developments across virtual worlds like There.com and Second Life) as well as cross-over, mixed reality gigs like [...]

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Hats off to the producers, Ellenor and Marcus, of this social, cross-media show. Scorched - Australia’s first ‘what-if’ disaster telemovie with a few enhancements. Did they get their fingers burnt, is it really over and was it a little too scarey?

As I have mentioned before in various articles sized posts on this blog and my [...]

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“Make Games and Virtual Worlds at Australian Film, TV and Radio School” - OK time to wear that other hat as Director of the Laboratory for Advanced Media Production at AFTRS and plug some of the cool new courses we are delivering in 6 months time.
CREATE ENTERTAINMENT EXPERIENCES OF THE FUTURE
Discover new opportunities to express [...]

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I have posted prolifically about MUVE’S (Multi User Virtual Environments) in the past, concentrating mainly on the ever customisable Second Life. It is interesting to watch the buzz spreading and consider if virtual worlds are really web 3.0, I think so. A quick look at the evolution of the intraweb from the mid 90’s. From [...]

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