Americans like to believe that they are on the cutting edge of technology.
Sometime they are.
Sometimes they are not.
When it come to the VJ Revolution, they are pretty much playing catch-up with Europe.
Most European media companies long ago began the shift to video for their broadband sites and most of them have adapted the most cost-effective way of creating that content – and it’s not using full blown beta crews.
If you want to take a look at a great site for video, take a look at The Guardian’s stuff. In particular, let me direct you to Gary Younge’s work. Younge is a columnist for The Guardian, but is resident in the US. Think Alistair Cooke, and his ‘Letter from America’.
take a look here. (sorry, Guardian videos not embedable)#
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/video/2008/jan/18/romney.carolina.younge
Gary won’t be joining us in Brussels next week, but here are some of the folks who will:
Confirmed speakers include:
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Lenslinger February 27, 2008
When you’ve turned ONE TENTH the number of solo-produced video stories that I have, Cliff, I’ll take you a biy more seriously. Until then you come across as some masturbatory neophyte locked away with his laptop. Maybe you should come up with another one of those self-assignments, you know.. get out, get some sun, put a little credibility where your crazy is.
Just a thought.
Until then, ease up – your getting it all over the screen.
Cliff Etzel February 26, 2008
! – nice commentary using Spy-vs-Spy!!!
Yeah Nino – I’m making a fool of myself…who’s the one saying he’s the top of the food chain? Usually people who have to boast of such things to appear better than others usually suffer some sort of inferiority complex.
The rest of the nay-sayers – get over yourselves. I’ll say it if no one else will. You guys must feel as though we who support the forward thinking Solo VJ paradigm view what you have to say is somehow important. You’re mistaken. This is a resource to discuss forward thinking Solo Video Journalism. You have other archaic thinking venues by which to slap each others backs who see things your way. Maybe you should go back to those resources instead of wasting your time here where no one is willing to listen to what you have to say.
And to clarify – What part of that previous paragraph is too complicated for you nay-sayers to understand?
$ February 26, 2008
Such easy questions but, for some reason, so hard for Rosenblum to answer.
Running away again because he doesn’t want to admit the truth.
Someone who is never at a loss for time to spout off about VJs, yet when it comes to a simple specific question, just “too busy”.
That says so much about what he does and doesn’t want people to know.
Nino February 26, 2008
I went there Michael, but still I can’t find any info about “how much”. Another egg in your face? Man you must feel lonely, I really start feeling sorry for you. You own blog, all these alleged friends of yours, all these success stories and you can’t come up with one single answer, only BS and more BS. But you know what’s worse, nobody else has come up to defend you or have an answer for you, this on your own blog, that’s sad, a true testament of your self proclaimed success. I hope you treasure Cliff, he is you only supporter, man that’s depressing.
So let me help you by answering for you, there’s no answer, nobody has ever sold a single video, not to web sites, not to TV stations, nowhere. Your video that you can a create successful career by creating videos is just another line of BS to separate fools from their money. If you are the head representative and keynote speaker of DNA I can well imagine what kind of congregation of BS thinking of ways to suck everything they can out of photographers. advantage of photographers. Well I have to go to work now, another proudly honest day of work, no BS just honest work, you got to try it sometime, that’s personally enriching.
rosenblumtv February 26, 2008
Boys
Unlike yesterday, which I spent waiting in Heathrow, I have a very busy day today, so I can’t play around with you. Sorry.
I suggest you quell your appetite for information about Citizens News by actually going to the website.
Here is how you do it:
Type in: http//www.ctzn.tv
(just copy that part). Then hit return.
If you need help, find some clever 12 year old.
best
$ February 26, 2008
Rosenblum continues to run from giving actual facts.
How much money paid?
Not a word.
Much like Cliff who still fears anyone finding out he too is one of many VJs who can’t make a buck unless it’s doing something non-VJ so they can pay their light bill.
It’s so much easier to teach a class. You don’t ever really have to produce anything but empty promises to students who know even less.
Nino February 26, 2008
Actually Michael my crew and I were having a blast with you today. We were all bitting of how much BS you can come up with when you are caught with eggs on your face for all the BS that you’ve been spreading for years and now how you scramble to avoid an answer. Read your own replies, it’s comical. The common consent was that you should run for public office, probably congress, only politicians can match your supply of BS.
I hope you realize what kind of fool you are making of yourself, you and Cliff make a great team.
So here it is again because you just don’t understand questions when you don’t have answers, If your citizenews BUYS videos as you said then:
Video BOUGHT by CitizenNews:
(please check one)
None
0 to 5
6 to 10
11 to 50
51 or more
Average PAID rate:
$0 to $50
$51 to $100
$101 to $500
Over $500
Please ask me what part don’t you understand. If it’s too difficult for you just check one, even Cliff could handle this one.
Could you also ask those other executives that buys from blogs how many they bought? Don’t you think that a good number would be a good incentive for VJs to post videos?
We are anxiously waiting for the next laugh.
! February 26, 2008
60+ comments!!!
the debate has become heated!
time for another picture of our dueling factions!
http://www.gametab.com/images/ss/xbox/3919/box-l.jpg
Cliff Etzel February 25, 2008
Nino said:
ROFLMAO – yeah, we’re being forced into accepting what Michael’s espouses. Did you miss the fact that we are capable of making our own decisions about what to believe and not believe? Get over it Nino – no one asked you or any other detractor to parent them.
Michael said:
I seriously doubt Nino or any of the entrenched nay-sayers ego’s will allow such a thing, Michael. To do so would show them to be wrong and that is the same thing as death.
Nino said:
Now I’ve heard it all.
rosenblumtv February 25, 2008
Dear nino
First, I had an early morning meeting with the bbc, then I sat at heathrow for four hours, so I had little else to do but play with you. But now I am in brussels and I have to get to work….(Don’t you have anything to do?)
In any event, I find it hard to believe you are as dumb as you are playing, but maybe you are, so I will try this one more time really really slowly:
Ctzn.tv does not sell videos. It buys them. It is a showcase for work, not an ebay. Go see mediastorm.com.
Get it now?
Probably not.
Go look at facebook.com
What do they sell?
Now, go look up the valuation for facebook.
Go look at myspace. What do they sell?
Murdoch bought myspace for 650 million. That’s probably even more than you made last year.. Maybe not…
Nino February 25, 2008
Okay let’s try again Mr. Scrooge. That site was supposed to be a clearinghouse for VJ or citizen videos, the Ebay of video, remember your words.
Web site name: CitizenNews
Video BOUGHT:
(please check one)
None
0 to 5
6 to 10
11 to 50
51 or more
Average PAID rate:
$0 to $50
$51 to $100
$101 to $500
Over $500
Maybe one day you’ll understand that I trying to see how much money these VJs are expecting to make, I’m sure that they’ll like to know that too.
BTW “none” is not a sin, embarrassing maybe.
rosenblumtv February 25, 2008
Dear einstein,
The site is free!
We don’t sell videos.
We BUY them!
Maybe I should start you with My Weekly Reader instead, huh?
Not too good in the reading comprehension dept.:)
Nino February 25, 2008
Michael, let me see if I can help you out on this one, maybe my questions were too difficult. Let’s do it one at the time.
Web site name: CitizenNews
Video sold:
(please check one)
None
0 to 5
6 to 10
11 to 50
51 or more
Average sale rate:
$0 to $50
$51 to $100
$101 to $500
Over $500
Let see if we can get somewhere with you this way.
pencilgod February 25, 2008
Do you know who Lord David Putnam is?
He used to be in film now he’s a Politician/visionary/nutcase judging by this:
http://workers.labor.net.au/63/a_guestreporter_puttman.html
rosenblumtv February 25, 2008
Dear nino
Do you know who Lord David Putnam is?
No?
Ok. He was the head of columbia studios, but he also directed Chariots of Fire, The Mission, The Killing Fields…
He took my class!
Now, I realize that you are at the top of the food chain, so Putnam is probably just a little bit below you…but, never the less, he also read the books and liked them very much.
Now, I know you could probably teach a thing or three to a no account loser like Lord Putnam, but…if it was good enough for him maybe you could lower your standards sufficiently to join him. I mean, after all, he only won like 3 academy awards and ran a hoLlywood studio…you are at the top of the food chain!
And speaking of hiding, I am having a hell of a time finding your mailing address. Does not seem to be on your website. Well, luckily one of my VJs is actually down there shooting for MLB productions, so I asked him to find you when he gets a free minute – unless you want to email me your address yourself. No matter, I will find it. The books are on their way and your education can commence!
Nino February 25, 2008
No Michael, if you are there then answer those damn question, if not then you are hiding behind your words.
Now let me see if I got this one right. I’m on the top of the food chain when it comes to this business and you are suggesting that I read some motivational material that you gave to those who are stuck on the bottom of the food chain and make one tenth of the money that professional at my level make? Are you out of your frigging mind? I think you lost it. If anything I’m the motivation, a poor emigrant with broken English who made it to the top.
Don’t you think that someone at the bottom of this business would be more interested to hear how one of them got to the top instead to keep hearing all your fantasies with no absolutely realities to back you up?
rosenblumtv February 25, 2008
I am hardly in hiding. I am right here.
I have worked with some excellent professionals, particularly when I produced kuralt at cbs news.
The books were required reading for the vjs trained at ny1 and in london, recommended for the rest.
I’ll send em, you read ’em, then tell me what you think.
Nino February 25, 2008
Michael, your problem is that you have never worked with any real dedicated professional in this business. You have your own self induced notions of how the business work and what we do. Our entire career is a learning process, unfortunately when you get to a certain level there are no more teachers, those who go into teaching are those who can not make it in the business. Our concern is always to stay ahead of the competition but most important is to stay ahead of ourselves, in our mind we ourselves are the competition so we got to get batter that we are. This is not only good for business but also keep our minds sharp and maintain the excitement for our skills. Anytime we do a job our main concern is how are we going to do it better than what we did yesterday. Also there’s team work. When you work with several professional at once everyone brings something to the table and this is where the exchange of ideas takes place. At the end of the day we all walk away with more ideas than we had early that morning. Be assured that my work today is better of what it was yesterday but not as good as it will be tomorrow. You accumulate this over 38 years and you do the math. It all translate into plenty of demand for your services and a good living.
Now back to your books, you just are not going to answer any of the questions, right, that’s becasue you have no answers.
So let me ask you this questions. Did you read those books? Did they help? Then show the results.
Did any of your VJ read those books, did it help, then show the results.
Soon or later you’ll have to come out of hiding and start showing that you are for real, until then you are nothing more than fantasy.
rosenblumtv February 25, 2008
I am sending the books. Neither is more than 150 pages. Read them. Don’t worry about the money. Try to open your mind to learning something. It will not hurt you, now will it?
Nino February 25, 2008
Save your money Michael and stop hiding. Just answer those damn questions so you can establish some sort of credibility, you are ruining many lives with your fiction. You made some bold statements about the status of this business, are these real or is just theory and the result of reading someone else ideas. When you have to support families you do not want ideas, you want to see results that can translate into food and rent. So put your money where your mouth is.
rosenblumtv February 25, 2008
Dear $
Actually the videos are offered for free. Have you ever SEEN the site? Exactly what kind of journalist are you…or AREN’T you?
$ February 25, 2008
I bet I can easily guess how many of those video were sold.
ZERO!
rosenblumtv February 25, 2008
Nino
Have you ever heard the expression “a mans reach should exceed his grasp”?
I am going to send you two books today, the Postman book and A World Lit By Fire by William Manchester.
They are gifts.
Read them if you want. It is up to you.