1984 Again
On the cutting edge of 1984 Exactly 26 years ago this week, Apple released the MacIntosh computer. January 25, 1984 to be exact. The Mac was a radical step forward in the world of computing. It was built on...
Read moreThe BBC’s “Digital Revolution”
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeDUGPCDKVA[/youtube] Think ‘documentary filmmaker’ and you conjure up images of the Maysle Brothers working away in thier Soho loft cutting Gimme Shelter at 3 AM. Not that that was such a bad film. It was great. But documentary filmmaking...
Read moreResults from TCA 145
I am in Boston today, but I wanted to post a few of the videos that came out of Travel Channel Academy 145 last week. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVsdRX97Kvg[/youtube] Jalanda came into the class never having touched a camera or an edit....
Read moreChimpcam on BBC
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH4_2IZ3vb8[/youtube] Well, here it is at long last. In the bootcamps we like to say that the technology has now gotten so simple that a monkey could shoot a video. Apparently that is not hyperbole. The BBC is about...
Read moreWe Became What We Beheld
He gets it every time.. pretty much… In 1988, Neil Gabler wrote a seminal book. At least seminal to my mind. It was is called An Empire of Their Own. It’s the story of the founding of the 5...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy NY
Today we start day 3 of the Travel Channel Academy in NY!
Read moreCarpe Medium
Hold everything! Many years ago, when I was a producer for CBS News, there was a kind of hyper-sensitivity to phone calls. We might run a story and conceivably 7 million people might watch it. However, if the phones...
Read moreRaising The Bar
This is a camera…. This morning we are kicking off a New York Travel Channel Academy. This is, in fact, academy number 145. And the demand is as strong as ever – stronger in fact, than when we started...
Read moreWe Make The NY Times Today
You spell it t.r.a.v.e.l.c.h…… This morning, I am very happy to relate, we got mention in The New York Times for the Travel Channel Academy. Matt Gross, who writes the column for The Times called me last week to...
Read moreMaybe Monetizing Is Not The Answer
OK… but how much are you going to pay me to do this? The content of the web continues to grow by leaps and bounds – almost all of it free – and yet we continue to ask the...
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