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.
Many Voices
A digital mosaic of the world in real time We are a world whose parameters are set by technology, yet we are slow to respond. When the technology of communications allowed us only 3 television channels, all programs were...
Read moreAl Atwitter
tell me something…. I was on the Curtis Sliwa show on ABC Talkradio last night. The topic was Twitter and Iran. Of course, it’s easy and self-evident to say that web based programs like Twitter are driving part of...
Read moreMonk v. Ayatollah
Local author… Although Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1452, the true political impact of that technology was not really realized until 1517. It was then that Martin Luther (pictured above) a disgruntled Monk from Wittenberg, Germany, began to...
Read moreImmersive Journalism
The art surrounds you… I just got off the phone (if that is not too archaic a term) with Bucharest, Romania. I was the keynote speaker at the Romania Media Conference. They originally offered to fly me to Bucharest,...
Read moreiPhone Future
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCo6-KhZT4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2F2009%2F06%2F14%2Fiphone-os-macbook-pro-24-multitouch-screen%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Sweden on the cutting edge again… The Swedish site Dremfeld.se has posted a video pushing an iPhone through a Mac with a touchscreen. The idea is intriguing and it opens a door to what the next generation of...
Read moreBigger News Than 9/11
Stop the presses!!! Last night I felt bad for The New York Times. We watched The Daily Show, and in one taped segement, ‘correspondent’ Jason Jones went to visit The New York Times, and proceeded to make snarky comments...
Read moreAnd Here’s Why PBS is Toast
Neil Shapiro, President WNET…. I have a soft spot in my heart for WNET/13, the PBS station in NY (though licensed in Newark, NJ technically). I had my first TV job at WNET and they allowed me to move...
Read moreWhat Is News Worth?
Single white female seeks…. Following the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour in 1537, King Henry VIII of England was convinced to marry Anne of Cleves (pictured above), to cement an alliance with the newly Protestant German state....
Read moreNow Here’s a TV Show
Crocodile bite… Every once in a while an honest-to-God TV show comes up and just bites you in the ass… That was how I felt yesterday when Dr. Adam Kushner dropped by the house for cup of coffee. He...
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