Machinima. Coming to an iPod near you

When i read of Machinima in the BusinessWeek i was thrilled.
The name, the concept and everything - with its own set of Blogs and Academy - is so kewl.

I always had a feeling that the Gaming generation is onto something very interesting - one with the potential to become far bigger than we can imagine now.

Seeing Machinima described as a sort of Gamer's Blog gives me visions. What they actually said was this:

"Since it emerged in the late 1990s, machinima has been the playground of mainly hard-core gamers who cobble together characters and sequences from favorite games, adding voice-overs laced with references that only fellow gamers can grasp. But with more user-friendly software tools on the market, novices can create their own narratives. That will democratize the movie business, machinima enthusiasts say. Anyone with a computer and off-the-shelf game software can now make and distribute animated movies over the Internet. "This is to the movies what blogs are to the written media," says Paul Marino, executive director of the Academy of Machinima Arts & Sciences, a New York nonprofit."
- BusinessWeek