Michael on Media
Michael Rosenblum has been writing about the media since 1988. His work and ideas have appeared in The Guardian, The Huffington Post, Ilkeston Life and many other publications.
He has been blogging regularly for the past 35 years on this subject. Having taught media studies at Columbia University, NYU and now the University of Oxford, he is considered an expert on this subject.
A Whole New World for Video
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6861129[/vimeo] The really interesting stuff is comes about half-way into this video Professional photographer Alexx Henry does some great work. But he is catching the leading wave of a new technology that promises to be a real game-changer in...
Read moreThe Weird Power of Video
Forgive me, for I have sinned…. I have been running video training bootcamps in one form or another for more than 20 years now. Part of the bootcamp experience is that we give people cameras and send them out...
Read moreScreenworld
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7824431[/vimeo] Here’s a video introduction to screenworld. (Practice what you preach, no?) You can find lots more of these at NYVS.com lots more.
Read moreLocal News is Dead
[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7768268[/vimeo] Last week at CUNY, I sat with Localnewser.com’s Mark Joyella. He took out his camera and did a small video interview on the spot. Â He posted it on his blog and on Vimeo. In the past few days...
Read moreDarwinian Journalism
The book that changed the world…. Journalism is a living species. And like any living species, it feeds. Â So long as it can feed, it survives. Journalism’s food is audience – readers or viewers. The pond was once a...
Read moreThe Washington Post Screws It Up
Those were the days…. and they were a long time ago… The Washington Post announced yesterday that they were firing VJs Pierre Kattar and Travis Fox. Matthew Ingram blogs that this is really about a fight between the paper...
Read more1,000 Flipcams in Newark
Click Here To Link To Knight Foundation Project [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ml21ZWGqCg[/youtube] As you may recall, some time ago I had an idea to try and place 1,000 flipcams in Gaza. While I am still working on that one, (which is a...
Read moreLike Magic
He saw the future before it happened.. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic -Arthur C. Clarke “Profiles of the Future” 1961 Arthur C. Clarke, who died last March was a science fiction author, but also a great...
Read moreWe’re Expanding NYVS Content
Catherine Chao explains how to sell yourself and your work We launched the beta-test version of New York Video School about a month ago, but we’re already seeing where we can expand the content. These last two days we’ve...
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