Transmedia and geolocation good or bad?

Just put up a new transmedia story map for The Book of Jer3miah - home.comcast.net/~DOCWHO2000/moreinfopages/bookofjer3miah.html - yes i am still updating my web series page :P i am still interested in transmedia web series and narratives hehe - just been busy

Some thoughts came up as I was writing the review - here are a few

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This (the book of Jer3miah) is an interesting mix of academics, entertainment, transmedia, religion and culture. This was born in a classroom and spiraled from there. The web series is the central piece and can be viewed and understood with out any of the other pieces (I purposely viewed the series through first, as I usually do, to see if it can be followed).

A lot of the transmedia sources offer more about the culture and religion (such as the Ark in America and Where is Brother Dayman) aspects than the fictional story in the web series. Also, some of the puzzles had a definite geolocation lock (the BYU campus).

Something that more transmedia narratives need is a map or way to block out how to follow all aspects. The main web site does this to a degree as they have an interact link with a listing of most of the other transmedia sources. This is similar to what Harper's Globe has done. The second - and this applies here and to narratives such as KateModern is a way to still experience puzzles and events that have past or have a geolocation lock (KateModern had some interactions in England).

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So with that, I wonder - two aspects of many transmedia/cross platform stories popping up right now is the use of social media (especially Facebook/twitter and such) and geolocation aspects (events that happen at a certain place/time or places you can go for more experience)

Will the story be hurt by too much dependence on this type of delivery method/experience? While it is awesome and moving towards full immersion in a narrative - does that mean the story has a life expectancy? And as a writer do you want that for a story? I mean i look at these social sites and they are awesome during the initial broadcast and then die (I put an example of this earlier with Harper's globe)

Are geolocation oriented events the same - a big thing this year so far is the push to geolocation apps and so on... but.... how will that translate to a story and more importantly - 10 years from now - will someone be able to understand the story without it?

And yo big money people - if you spend all this money on these events to get people to the story - um, what will get them to the story in an year? or 10??????