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We just wrapped up our 4-Day Intensive video bootcamp in New York. It was a remarkable success. We have been running these bootcamps since 1988, and I never get tired of doing them. It never ceases to amaze me...

This morning we watched CBS Sunday Morning. It’s a very good show. It also looks exactly like it did when I worked there as a producer in the 1980s. In fact, it could be exactly the same, save that...

The fallout from the Harvey Weinstein revelations are probably just getting started, but yesterday, Apple’s nascent toe in the water attempts at TV production was the most recent victim. Apple, world-changer, most valuable company in the world, amazing technical...

October 2017 is a big month. Yeah, there’s Halloween… But October 2017 also represents something much more interesting, though I am willing to bet that this remarkable anniversary will go unnoticed. Five Hundred Years Ago, on October 1517, Martin...

You know, some of the most innovative ideas in the tech world have come out of universities like Stanford. I mean, these are hot houses of invention. That’s where Google was invented! And no wonder. They attract bright young...

A few years ago, my nephew introduced me to three of his college buddies from Wash U. They wanted to participate in the Mongol Rally, an 11,000 mile drive across Europe and Asia, from London to Ulan Bator, in...

When it comes to still photography, Hasselblad is the Gold Standard. These, after all, are the cameras that went to the moon (and unfortunately, got left there) in the Apollo mission. The thing about Hasselblad has always been the...

TV is a multi-billion dollar business ripe for disruption. Like Brazil, ‘the land of the future and always will be’, the notion of what could replace conventional television looms but never seems to find a home. Apple, which did...

When I gradauted from college, I knew what I wanted to do. I was going to be a writer. But to be a writer, I needed something to write about. So I hitch-hiked overland from London to Kathmandu, Nepal....

  Print organizations like newspapers and magazines are magnets for creative people who have a passion for telling stories. They didn’t go to work for the paper of the magazine because they thought it was a good way to...