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.
We Join Up With NATPE in LA
Do you like this? A unique opportunity in LA? There is no point in training people to be proficient in video if they can’t find a way to earn a living with it. Of course, not everyone who comes...
Read moreRoyal Wedding Coverage
Where’s the Rolls? OK It’s not the Royal Wedding. It’s my wedding. And it wasn’t in Westminster Abbey. They don’t allow rabbis in there – as far as I know. I am blogging about my wedding (or rather the...
Read moreUsing Video To Sell A House & VJ Work from Libya
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOo7YAinyXg[/youtube] Is this the way to sell a house online? This month we’re making an aggressive drive to create some partnerships with real estate companies for online video. As I noted yesterday, even the best real estate agencies have...
Read moreLast Typewriter Company Closes Up Shop
Also makes great novels…. It was the ultimate word processor Portable. Self contained. Never ran out of power. And to this day, the only one that had a self-contained printer. You could do envelopes as well as legal papers...
Read moreDigital Feudalism
Bless you, my Lord Murdoch.. Bless you… Your average peasant walking around feudal Europe did not spend their lives going, ‘you know what? This system sucks’. On the contrary, they were pretty much incapable of seeing the world organized...
Read moreMao & Murdoch, Lies and Videotape
Before there were Flipcams… “Power”, Chairman Mao wrote in the Little Red Book, “flows from the barrel of a gun”. Mao was a product of an earlier era. It turns out that increasingly, power flows from the lens of...
Read moreWill Viddy be the next Twitter but for Video?
Brett O’Brien, co-founder of Viddy The shocking demise of Flipcam last week became even more shocking when it was revealed that Cisco was about to release a new version of Flipcam that streamed video direclty to the web. This...
Read moreWhen Your World Gets Blown Apart
The iPad of the 19th Century The New York Times reported yesterday that nationally people are at a ‘low mood’ when they think about the future of the economy and the nation. There are short-term fixes, but in a longer...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
Loser! Thomas Edison understood the concept of the lightbulb. What he had a problem with was finding the right filament for the thing. It took him more than 9,000 tries until he hit on the idea of carbonized bamboo...
Read moreand now… Augmented Reality
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBKy-hSedg8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Now you see it, now you see more of it This one is called Augmented Reality or Mediated Reality. It has been around, in one form or another since the 1990s, and has, until now, mostly been seen...
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