Don Norman on Transmedia

Don Norman somehow reminds me of a Hunter Thompson character from his photo, which is why I posted it along with his piece on The Transmedia Design Challenge. He gave a keynote at 21st Century Transmedia Innovation Symposium in Korea this past September. Find more on him at Interactions Magazine, published by The Association of Computing Machinery.

Faris Yakob's Video Touches on Transmedia

2010: Entertainment and Communication from Faris Yakob on Vimeo.

Transmedia and Avoiding the Economic Crisis: The Goldman Bad Boys

Goonth's Posterous writes a cool piece on the Gretchen Morgensen and Louise Story piece in the New York Times this past week (Thursday, Dec. 24th) on how the global banks, namely Goldman Sachs, forecasted the implosion of mortgage-related securities, created a marketplace for C.D.O.’s (Collateralized Debt Obligations), and then made bets against them from which they profited...and ties it all into transmedia.

READ IT HERE.

I am reading this while listening to vintage Ron Paul from 1988.

WATCH IT HERE.

This stuff is really fascinating, if you are into Economics and the Hidden Hand. Check it all out.

The Transmedia Equation, Part 1

Jeff Gomez talks Top Down Development with jawbone.tv here.

In LA...and Looking for Henry Jenkins

I am in LA and wanting to have coffee with Henry Jenkins – Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism and Cinematic Arts, USC. We'll see what happens. Watch this space...

This video from the Keynote from Futures of Entertainment 4: Revenge of the Origami Unicorn: Five Key Principles of Transmedia Entertainment

In the Transmedia Trenches: A Conversation with Mike Monello

Aina Abiodun speaks with Mike Monello during FOE4. Read the full story here.

Nuts for Social Media

Check out this article with fab examples of favorite strategies + others that need "improvement."

Full article here by Natalie Zmuda & Kunur Patel from Advertising Age.

Four Tips for Brands Embracing the New Methods of Storytelling

Check out the full story here, which was written by Christine Huang of GlobalHue.

It is more on the results of the Futures of Entertainment and highlights 4 important points of interest, as told by Henry Jenkins.

Brent Friedman of Electric Farm on brands embracing Transmedia

"My prediction moving forward, is there's going to be a greater stratification of web content. You're going to see more professional content come in with higher budgets and become more ambitious. And the user gen and amateur content isn't going to go away. I just think you're going see a little more disparity between the haves and the have nots in terms of budgets. And what I think you're going to see with the bigger budget projects is it's not just going to be about the webisodes anymore. It's going to be creating much more of an integrated entertainment experience."
Source: Larry Kless' Webblog