What Does It Look Like?
images that once could move a nation….. In November, 1936, Henry Luce, founder of Time Magazine gave birth to a new publication: LIFE. We barely remember it now, but at one time LIFE was an American icon. People waited...
Read morePutting the VJ Army to Work
Adam Kaufmann, VJ at work on Drew Carey’s Sporting World….. In 1990 I formed a company called Video News International. By 1992 I had trained and equipped about 100 VJs around the world. No one had ever heard of...
Read more1-Day VJ Turn
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3rhfS_P50o] Does this answer your question? The “VJ” question ultimately comes down to one of quality. Recently at RTNDA, news directors raised this question. Gary Brown, ND from KTGV aired this piece. That was pretty much the end of...
Read moreAnd now…. lose the Building….
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zVw7YQwIaw] WKRN GM Mike Sechrist at Bloggers Convention Almost a year ago, Mike Sechrist invited me to come down to Nashville for a Bloggers Convention. I had been to plenty of Current.tv ‘meet ups’, but this was different. These...
Read moreWho wants to go to South America?
….come on down!!! Last week we completed casting for 5Takes, season four. The photo above is from the New York auditions. Lots of people turned out… and why not? This time we are sending the group to South America.
Read moreMoore’s Law, Iran and The Internet
Long before Al Gore… the Internet was actually invented here…. In 760 BC, the Great Shah of Iran had two passions: warfare and games. Thus it was that his Vizir invented something for him that combined both. He called...
Read moreThink Small
time for a change……. In 1988, I was invited to a party at Barry Rebo’s loft on 25th Street in NY. Rebo was one of the most aggressive early adapters in the production business. He had brought the first...
Read moreOut of Focus
Can you have them shake hands instead? Since its inception, making television has been like reading tea leaves. You knew there was an audience out there, but you didn’t really know what they wanted. So you guessed, or dealt...
Read moreBrian Williams, اّبله, المعتوه, اّØمق, المغÙÙ„
دجل On Sunday, we did the opening session at RTNDA in Las Vegas. The RTNDA made a conscious decision to embrace the ‘New Journalism” and everyone on stage, in one way or another was a blogger.. or vlogger. The...
Read moreRTNDA Opening Session
Jeff Jarvis (thumb in foreground) takes the job…. Just finished the opening session at RTNDA here in Vegas. I gotta say this for RTNDA – they are grappling with digital, online and VJ issues up front. The entire opening...
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