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Investing 10 years in your passion

It has been a long time, 10 years, preaching my ideas on another form of storytelling; crossmedia storytelling. After Jenkins another term was adopted for this: transmedia storytelling.
I have had endless debates with people wanting to define the term differently. Again and again trying to explain this Major transition in our relation to ‘our [...]

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Why mediocre doesn’t do the tric for me

I have had some debates about this lately.
That I needed to adjust my goals to what is applicable in the market space.
To get my portfolio filled some more..
You know… just do what you are asked to do.
 
IF you want me to do just another social campaign because “everybody” is doing it.
IF you want me to [...]

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Chatroulette, Next wave in social?

Today I tried http://www.chatroulette.com for a while. I tried before, but then the service was down. Monday evening at the upload event (an event putting webfilms on the screen: subject webcams) we chatrouletted with a filmhouse full of people. Today i wanted to try the intimate 1- on - 1 version.
It’s actually really fun [...]

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How small ideas can grow big

Who would have thought, over 10 years ago when I started pioneering in the field of crossmedia/transmedia that our ideas for new more engaging ways of storytelling would become a real accredited profession today! (that of the first theorists and practitioners playing in this greenfield, yes even before Jenkins wrote his influential work; 'Convergence Culture' [...]

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A lack of clarity when it is most needed

In the middle of a storm, it is difficult to see the bottom of the ocean through the muddy waters
This is one of Plato’s stories:
It is about a ship in the middle of the ocean. On this ship was a gruff burly captain who was rather shortsighted and slightly deaf. He and his crew followed [...]

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Loss of first window control

To me “Alice in Wonderland” is one of the greatest meta-stories there is around. Is see it as methaphorically for the work I do, helping media companies going through the “rabbit hole”. How symbolically that it is this story that today illustrates how Disney is trying to get cinema’s to enter into the ‘rabbit hole’.  [...]

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Moving from stories to legends..

Moving from stories to legends..

This is part of my 10 years old quote:

….Some people think we are made of flesh and blood..

Scientist say we are made of atoms.

But actually I believe we are made of stories!…
& here is what I was thinking of recently..

Now we have come to a time where [...]

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‘Dondersteendag’ It’s a go!

the launch of the first dondersteendag, together with CMBO, Syntens and MA Factory on september 10th, 2009

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They won their tickets ;-)

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Jeff Gomez on transmedia experiences & future entertainment bizz

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