Are Talking Heads Necessary Any More?
Charlie Tillinghast, President of MSNBC.com spoke to Beet.tv He told them that online, you don’t want or need ‘talking heads’ to deliver the news. Tillinghast seemed to imply that text would take the place of narrative and that the...
Read moreGames, Games and more Games
Games, it turns out, are great predictors for the way new technology will be used. When I was in college in the late ’70s, (shocking but true), we had a ‘Computer Center’ that had a massive IBM mainframe. Â You...
Read moreThe Titanic and The Internet
We are heading toward the centennial of the sinking of the Titanic. On the evening of April 14, 1912, the Titanic, steaming toward New York on her maiden voyage, struck an iceberg and within a few hours sank to...
Read moreWhat Happened To Current TV and Why – Keith Olberman or Not
He said, she said… Apparently, Keith Olberman is going to be on Letterman tonight to give ‘his side of the story’. Apparently, Olberman compares himself to a “$10 million chandelier in need of a suitable house. Current was not...
Read moreWhy Networks Are Toast
Not anymore… This morning I took part in an online discussion entitled “How Do We Adapt To TV’s Digital Collision” on the Guardian website. I started by saying “TV is dead”. I like this for two reasons: Â First, there’s...
Read moreWhat The Travel Channel Could Be… but isn’t
A novel look at life inside China today….. The Travel Channel, which has been in decline since Scripps took it over a few years ago has now reached what I hope is the ‘bottom of the barrel’, but one...
Read moreMeasuring the Impact
Every month, I contribute to something called The Carnival of Journalism. Members are asked to blog on the last Friday of each month on a single topic. This month’s topic is: Â “How Do We Measure Impact?” Of course,...
Read moreHow To Make Great Travel Videos
At the Center for Communications Last night Lisa and I did a seminar before about 400 people at the Center for Communications on ‘How To Make Great Travel Videos’. While we are always happy to explain the basics of what...
Read more5 New Video Editing Apps for your iPhone
You push the button, we do the rest….. I have been on jury duty all this week for the State of New York. The last time I did jury duty, you sat in hard wooden chairs in a green-painted...
Read moreLaunch Of A New Concept For Video
Let us now praise…… We are all creatures of habit. Once we have learnt an old way of doing something, it takes us a long time to unlearn it. When new technologies come along, we have a natural human...
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