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Thachr


Sara Thacher: “I’m . . . a transmedia producer and experience designer. I make adventures that…

What is “Web-Native” TV? Why I’m Excited for Arrested Development’s Season Four
Posted 29 April 2013 | 3:00 pm

Olga Nunes on Making Transmedia Music
Posted 7 February 2013 | 8:18 am

Tangible Storytelling
Posted 25 November 2012 | 7:44 pm

I Saw a Unicorn and It was Called Renga
Posted 10 October 2012 | 5:21 am

Slow Mail
Posted 13 August 2012 | 4:00 pm

USC Mobile and Environmental Media Lab


The Mobile and Environmental Media Lab is currently exploring location-specific mobile storytelling. This…

Using location data to predict where people will be, when they will be there, and who they will be there with

Never mind the increasingly ubiquitous surveillance-by-smartphone of where people are. Next up is keeping…

Ambient Storytelling for Vehicle-Driver Interaction

This project explores how in-car sensor systems can be integrated with cloud computing and social media services to make possible new modes of storytelling, interaction and engagement.

Pasta&Vinegar


This is a blog by Nicolas Nova. I study people’s practices as well as usage of technologies and turn them…

Digital Creativity on design fictions
Posted 10 June 2013 | 7:16 pm

Kenneth Goldsmith’s ‘Uncreative Writing”
Posted 8 June 2013 | 8:23 am

‘Curious Rituals’ in Milan for the Design Week 2013
Posted 23 April 2013 | 4:44 pm

Art/tech scene
Posted 13 April 2013 | 7:58 am

10 years!
Posted 31 March 2013 | 7:27 pm

MuseumMobile


MuseumMobile is a forum for conversations about mobile interpretation – media & technology – for…

John Geraci


John Geraci has “spent the past seven years making cities better with web and mobile technologies.”…

My TechCrunch Post on Amazon.com: The Hidden Empire
Posted 22 February 2013 | 12:41 pm

My post on Valve in Business Insider
Posted 26 April 2012 | 11:43 am

Note To TED, Local Projects and DIYcity: Nobody Owns the Web (Not Even You)
Posted 6 March 2012 | 9:12 pm

My TEDxBigApple Talk [Video]
Posted 2 March 2012 | 9:15 pm

What Is Happening at johngeraci.com?
Posted 20 February 2012 | 5:16 pm

Ambient storytelling resources

This post contains starting points for researching and developing “ambient” storytelling and interaction systems (i.e., stories or games that take place in the background, rather than traditional attention-focusing media artifacts such as movies or console video games).

Image Mapping and Tracking for AR Apps

If we’re going to tell stories using AR, I suspect that we’ll be looking for solutions that break free of the need for pre-set glyphs, routers or other equipment.

Million Story Building

If a building could talk, what would it say? How would it “feel” about the comings and goings of the people who use it every day? Would it be affected by their moods and desires?