Video Lessons From a 12th Century French Abbey
The cutting edge of media – in the 12th Century This week, Lisa and I find ourselves living the Les Deux Abbesses, a hotel deep in the Haute Loire region of France. The hotel is actually a converted 12th...
Read moreThe Untapped Future
A whole new world was born here…. In 1936, Saudi Arabia was listed as one of the poorest countries in the world. It was little more than barren desert. It’s GNP was far south of Somalia’s. It was sparsely...
Read moreSaving Patch… and AOL
Lots of potential.. if… In 2007, Tim Armstrong and Jon Brod founded Patch Media, a hyperlocal news site (or network of sites), after Armstrong grew frustrated that he could not find out anything about what was happening in his...
Read moreWhy NBC Is Closer To The Middle Ages than it is to Youtube
Just a second, I want to send a tweet about The Reformation… I have just emerged from a week spent in an 11th Century castle in Tuscany with friends and family (my wife, their family, which is fine). What made the...
Read moreHow To Shoot An Interview – And How NOT To Shoot An Interview
IÂ just screened a piece done by a videojournalist who works for us. Terrible. CTLL (clear the timeline) territory. She had recently graduated from a journalism program at a university that we often hire from. The first thing we...
Read moreObama – Our First Reality Show President
Can he make it to the final? “You are what you eat”, or more properly, ‘tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are’ said the 18th Century French epicure Brillant-Savarin. In France, eating was...
Read moreIs Facebook Total Bullshit?
At last, something real I have spent the past few days taking long walks in the Cotswolds, in England. The nice thing about England (one of many) is the ‘right of passage’ laws that allows you to cross otherwise...
Read moreThe Museum of Soon-to-be-Obsolete Technology
The half-life of technologie has never been fast. Critical must- have today, a worthless piece of junk tomorrow. The turn-around time has never been fast. LP records lasted for about 70 years until cassette tape drove them out. But...
Read moreHow To Start Your Own Production Company
First, lose the film! Yesterday I got an email from an old friend in Colorado who is a professional television cameraman. He works in news and is one of the best in the business. But he also sees what...
Read moreUndaunted Courage
This way ahead…. OFFÂ THEÂ MAP I am reading Undaunted Courage, by Stephen Ambrose, the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition across North America. Lewis and Clark set out in 1804 to chart the overland path from St. Louis...
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