I’ve since begun a blog on TapBot to cover immersive story and it’s related issues. Although I’m into disparate things, I got the feeling that my audience was having trouble following them all. I think this hurt immersive story find a bigger audience and so moving it to its own blog I’m hoping to correct that. – August 7, 2008
Since I’m starting afresh with my blog after it unceremoniously exploded, I thought I’d give a quick intro to my blog and some recent history. Some of this is a rehash of a post I made a week ago after being inspired to return to more of a rant style.
First, this blog isn’t the easiest to get into as the concept of immersive story itself isn’t easy to grasp for many. Sometimes I wish I was blogging about a topic that was well known, but then again what’s the fun in that. To try and help visitors I tried to keep the blog focused and explanatory. However I think I sacrificed some of my personal stake in doing this. After seeing Dusan’s rant on small worlds and oddly enough Scoble’s post about how the blogging community has failed, I feel the need to move to a more rant style. To be less concerned about my audience every day and just post – I know, what a novel idea, maybe I can call it a blog.
So to be clear, this blog will revolve around:
- Immersive story
- Concept and requirements
- Requirements for an immersive story engine (TapBot)
- Artificial intelligence (AI) to make it work
- Other technology that might be useful
- Moving intelligent virtual agents to intelligent virtual characters
- Interactive story in general
- The metaverse
- The industry
- Platforms
- Concepts
- Marketing
- Methods in immersive story
- Metaverse in general
- Social media marketing
I included social media marketing as I think it’s relevant, especially after the explosion of small worlds that revolve around social networking features. It’s also my day job as a Social Media Strategist at Experian.
One thing I’ll try and stay away from is re-reporting stories that most people discover through other means – FriendFeed, Google Reader, etc.
All in all I hope this will allow me to knock out posts at a quicker pace and ultimatley spend more time writing my screenplay. I know I’ve failed so far in the screenplay department, but I just can’t seem to give up the dream.
