The F**k-ups In The Corner
oh yeah…. here’s our online dept… let’s move on…. Yesterday, I had a long phone conversation with a major Canadian broadcaster, much like the BBC. They wanted to talk to me about “Citizen Journalists”. “How do you get people...
Read moreA Sense of Dedication
At work by the pool Ken Krushel knows what television network news is all about. He was senior vice president of Strategic Planning and Business Development at NBC where he oversaw new media development, including digital broadcast, digital cable...
Read moreDo The Right Thing
Don’t point that cell phone at me! The New York Times is carrying a story today that Nokia and filmmaker Spike Lee have signed a deal to create content out of ‘User Generated Content” made on Nokia phones. Nokia...
Read moreMore Than 10 Billion Served
The Revolution Will Be Televised…. The Wall Street Journal reports on Wednesday, March 5th that: “in December, Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos online, according to comScore Inc. – one of the single heaviest months for online...
Read moreArts & Crafts
portrait of the artist as a young man In 1948, 24-year old Norman Mailer wrote “The Naked and the Dead”. It was his first novel. But not his first short story. That had been published when he was 18....
Read moreVideo Volunteers
What is an education worth? Our friend from Fox News writes to ask what is the value of a short training course in video. “How much money can I make from it”? he wants to know.
Read moreThe Information "Explosion"
This just in…… Several years ago I was invited to take over a course at New York University. The man teaching it, Ed Diamond, had died just a few days before school was to start.
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