The Billion Dollar Quest

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/CSM/story?id=521547&page=1

This is an article I found on abcnews.com spectulating on the future of Yahoo and the imminent shift of traditional TV entertainment (sitcoms, movies) to the realm of the internet. I love reading stuff like this because this is precisely what I plan to do: use the internet to build a media empire. Right now, all I can do is make some games and blog my mind, but it wont be too long at all before I am using this medium to broadcast short films, then sitcoms and eventually full-blown movies. Right now, it is only a select group that have access to these opporunties, the fortunate few that happen to be noticed by Hollywood. However, in the coming years the internet will host the next generation of great artists and writers, and fundamentally change the way the such art is broadcast and who is able to do it. Recently, we have seen a boom in independent recording artists (thanks to improvements in recording technology) and it will not be long before the same thing happen across the entertainment industry.

Again, I want to emphasize that is more the internet than my intellect that makes this quest even possible. If this were 20 years ago, and I had some cool movie ideas in my head, it might be that I would have to srcratch and claw my way through years of disappontments and anonymity before earning one shot in Hollywood. But with the internet, I will be able to put work out there for the whole world to see and bypass this whole process. Currently, there are probably scores of people like me, with all the talent and vision, but none of the contacts or breaks, who you might never have heard of in the world of the past. But the internet is going to give me and other similar-minded people, a fair chance to be heard.

I am initiating a something called The Memorabilia Experiment in which I will be testing the phenomenon of memorabilia. You will have an opportunity to bid on items targeted his future memorabilia, should I achieve success. To learn more about this, follow this link [URL]http://www.billiondollarquest.com/memorabiliaexperiment.html[/URL]

I actually didnt do a whole lot this weekend, as I have been awaiting the arrival of my speech-to-text software. Once I get that, and get it set up, I will be adding a lot of content to my sites. Notable things this weekend: a couple more help offers, initiation of new website playmindgames.com that one of my helpers (Mark) is doing, initiation of 2 new games… and I am about to open this site to the public. In other news I am about to go on a quasi-retreat for 10 days. I am house-sitting in a woodland house on top of a big hill. So who knows what will come out of that…. but they still have the internet there so Ill be working plenty on the quest.

Last you heard I was about to have a game design day… well, things happen and it became more like 3 hours than a day, but I still managed to come up with over 30 great new ideas… and then Andy came over the next day and we fine tuned some of them and cape up with a number more, including a whole class of new games that are just going to be awesome (mouse games), a great navigation game, and the first “action” game. since then 2 of those new games have been initiated by my ever-growing trouoe of programmers, and when Andy gets his computer back he will begin another. meanwhile, I got to see prototypes of games that Georges and Nick are working on right now. Its always fun to see a game for the first time… I have received probably 5 new offers for help since last update and I am beginning to coordinate with these people. I may have just gotten my second official translator (for Filipino how cool!) and most exciting of all the statistics/ranking system that I have dreamed up is moving along nicely and may be here as soon as a month! no specific time is set, but it wont be too long at all now

Today I had my first voice IP chat which seems significant since it will probably become a standard way for me to keep in touch with all my helpers. I also went to the bookstore and read about PHP for two hours, as I have decided I can no longer live without knowledge of this very useful little langauge. Eventually it will allow me to create some cool website stuff and make my games more powerful…