Art & Journalism
Shirt 1 – 36×48…. and for sale! There is an expression called ‘high tech-high touch’. It means that in a high-tech world, there is a naturall attraction to high touch, or non technical things. Like writing with a fountain...
Read moreBING-goes to Video
Why don’t you just Bing me? Yesterday at the All Things D conference Microsoft Chief Exec Steve Ballmer unveiled BING, their new search engine, and a competitor (in theory at least) to Google. Competitor to Google is no easy...
Read moreTravel Channel Academy DC
This week we are back in DC at Travel Channel HQ where we are minting another 40 Travel Channel Journalists. Among the group, Charlie Parsons, Head of Development for The Travel Channel. Hmmm….
Read moreWe Launch NY Video School…. soon
Coming soon We’ve been running video training seminars for more than 20 years, in one form or another. Until now, they were always in-person and hands-on. But for the past year, we have been building an online video/VJ training...
Read moreMass Media
Which one is the truth? An exchange of tweets yesterday with BurmaVJ among others got me thinking about journalism and the web. Not in the usual way, however. It made me think about a completely new kind of journalism…....
Read moreDeath To The Queen!
Off with her head! My friend Gary Younge writes in The Guardian yesterday that it is time to ‘ditch the Monarchy’. I don’t agree. The Monarchy serves a purpose, as any student of British history knows. The last time...
Read moreA Tale of Two Companies
Forever loyal… The sign of a great book is when you keep referencing it. And so now I find myself doing the same with Jeff Jarvis’ What Would Google Do? In the book, Jarvis tells the story of how...
Read moreFarewell Len Shlain
Good-bye Len My friend Leonard Shlain died last week. I will miss him. It is not often that you read a book that changes the way you see the world. Perhaps only a handful in a lifetime. So it...
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