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We’ve been through a lot of ups and sideways with this site. Luckily we’ve had no real downs with the exception of one. We’ve been pursued by the torrent police, accused by conspiranoia geeks of all sorts of shenanigans and high weirdness, gone through two format changes, added and subtracted several shows, hit some home [...]
Over 10 years ago, I discovered that I could save word documents as html files and upload them to my ISP user home page, and raw23.comcast.net was born. A few years ago, Joseph Matheny began hosting this site on the Alterati/Hukilau servers, and now he has converted the base site to this new platform. With [...]
Justin Kirby just loaded the series 1 and 2 connected marketing interviews he conducted with industry luminaries from 2005-7. He’s hoping to start another series soon, but in the meantime you can check out the following: Douglas Rushkoff (author and cultural critic) Professor Tor W Andreassen (on Word of mouth applied research) Andrea Learned (on [...]
Hello again, listeners! It’s been a long time, but we’re back. We’ve got something special for you we’ve been working on for a long time. In this podcast, Garrett and Riley give away an audio from the interactive multimedia Radical Undoing 101 course. Find out more about the course by clicking here. Radical Undoing 101 [...]
Jan Libby, the creator of Snow Town, talks with us about story, immersion, and her plan to turn her short ARG into a replayable app. Hosts: Nick Braccia from Culture Hacker Haley Moore Dee Cook from Dog Tale Media Robert Pratten from Transmedia Storyteller Special Guests: Jan Libby, creator of the Snow Town I-Fi App currently up for contributions on [...]
PROGRAM NOTES: The featured audio that I play in this podcast is part of a two-CD collectionproduced by Joe Matheny and given to the salon to podcast by the distributor, The Original Falcon Press, which you can find via originalfalcon.com. The voices you will here are those of: Douglas Rushkoff, Antero Alli, Tiffany Lee Brown, and Joseph Matheny. FROM: http://www.matrixmasters.net/salon/?p=439&fb_source=messageRelated PostsCoincidence Control Network: File [...]
My late friend , writing partner and contributor to this very site, Dave Szulborski, has been named as the World’s Most Prolific ARG Developer by Guinness World Records 2012 Gamer’s Edition. “Between 2001 and 2008, pioneering American game designer Dave Szulborski (1957-2009) worked on a total of 13 major ARGs, starting with “Majestic”, EA’s attempt to create an [...]
I recently tracked down the pdf’s for nearly all of the issues of the now-deceased counterculture online zine Grey Lodge Occult Review. The site was taken down due to “legal threats and religious hackers”. To see the table of contents for the issues visit the Wayback Machine here. Along with the rabbit hole that is Deoxy, this was [...]
Janine Saunders, creative producer of Robot Heart Stories, talks with us about how Robot Heart Stories used transmedia strategies to engage underprivileged elementary students in collaborative learning.
Lorenzo ran more excerpts of one of my audio projects over at the Psychedelic Salon. This time Hakim Bey and Robert Anton Wilson from the T.A.Z. CDs. Enjoy.