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I spent five years training more then 750 journalists to be VJs at The BBC between 2000 and 2005. Now, five years later, we are back at The Beeb, running another pilot bootcamp. This time we are in Bristol...
Read moreMaking YouTube Pay
How do you make this pay? YouTube uploads an astonishing number of videos, more than 23 hours of video every minute. People also look at an astonishing number of videos – more than 1 billion views a day. As...
Read moreConcentra Award Winners
Award winner Adam Ellick, NY Times Last week, in Antwerp, we awarded the Fifth Annual Concentra Award for Videojournalism. This year’s winner was Adam Ellick, a videojournalist for The New York Times. We liked Ellick’s work for a number...
Read moreAn Image Problem
schlepper Hollywood Reporter last week said that “TV viewing in the home is at an all-time high, averaging 5.13 hours per viewer per day during fourth-quarter 2009 and more than eight hours a day for the entire household…” More...
Read moreSelf Publishing Takes Off
You can’t get it on Amazon.com… yet… When future archaeologists begin to excavate our civilization they may come to believe that some tragic event befell our culture in the early 21st Century. That is because all historical records of...
Read moreCable Turns To Oatmeal
cover in olive oil and sea salt, preheat oven to 375 degrees… What’s in a name? Kentucky Fried Chicken spent a fortune to become KFC, mostly so they could get rid of 2/3rds of their name that had become...
Read moreAnd Now… Google TV
Around here we have been having an internal discussion about changing the name of the company. Rosenblumtv. It’s the TV part (though some would like to change the first part as well, I am currently opposing that move). TV...
Read moreConcentra Prize Nominees Announced
Could you use $15,000? On May 6th, in Antwerp, we will award the Concentra Prize for Videojournalism. $15,000 for the best VJ piece in the world. Yesterday, Concentra, a Belgium based media company, announced the finalists. The Winning Hood...
Read moreGood Bye Floppy Drive
My first computer was an NEC APCIII, the APC standing for Advanced Personal Computer. And for its time, which was 1983, it was advanced. It ran on floppy disks. I had trays of them, each carefully marked. Word Processing,...
Read moreThis Day in History
The iPhone of its day… It was small, it was electronic, you could hold it in the palm of your hand. It allowed you to be connected to anyone else, anywhere in the world instantly. It had however only...
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