The New Media Geek

The Epic Failure of Broadcast Television
With my design, project, and travel schedules, combined with an active two year old and my wife’s weekly schedule, we are rarely able to sit down on the couch to watch a series at the regularly slotted broadcast time. We don’t own a DVR.
This benefits our family by allowing [...]

Vampires? Really?

Let me begin with a caveat: I hate Twilight.
My decidedly old school opinion: the vampire is a soulless being of pure evil with only purpose being to wreck havoc on living, souled, humans. In that light 30 Days Of Night was the most true representation of the vampire I’ve seen recently.
The second reason [...]

Google Wave
“Hey dude, you know about this stuff. What is Google Waves?“
So it you haven’t been living under a rock you should already be excited about Google Wave. With the amount of information available about this awesome new tool I am not going to rehash all the real time collaborative value adds Wave has; suffice [...]

Saturday September 19th was an exciting day for me. New Media 2012 was a fantastic event. Vital, actually, for anyone interested in the convergence of Trans Media distribution platforms and portals. There is a slideshow of the speakers available on the New Media 2012 web site, all [...]

What is New [or Trans] Media?
New or Trans media describes the convergence of digital communication portals providing the end user with an immersive, interactive experience.
A poor illustration of this concept: the user interfaces with the content through a variety of portals, with each portal niche-geared to provide unique, value add interaction.

With the ever increasing dependence [...]