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.

Listening To The Technology

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7901103[/vimeo] Andy Grove, the former Chairman and CEO of Intel said “listen to the technology, it will tell you what to do’. If we are smart we will listen to where the technology is headed. It has been going...

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Has Journalism Been Voted Off The Island?

Which one writes for The Chicago Tribune? In early December the Federal Trade Commission is going to hold a series of hearings on the collapse of the journalism business. It is good that the federal government is paying attention...

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A Whole New World for Video

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6861129[/vimeo] The really interesting stuff is comes about half-way into this video Professional photographer Alexx Henry does some great work. But he is catching the leading wave of a new technology that promises to be a real game-changer in...

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The Weird Power of Video

Forgive me, for I have sinned…. I have been running video training bootcamps in one form or another for more than 20 years now. Part of the bootcamp experience is that we give people cameras and send them out...

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Screenworld

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7824431[/vimeo] Here’s a video introduction to screenworld. (Practice what you preach, no?) You can find lots more of these at NYVS.com lots more.

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Local News is Dead

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/7768268[/vimeo] Last week at CUNY, I sat with Localnewser.com’s Mark Joyella. He took out his camera and did a small video interview on the spot.  He posted it on his blog and on Vimeo. In the past few days...

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Darwinian Journalism

The book that changed the world…. Journalism is a living species. And like any living species, it feeds.  So long as it can feed, it survives. Journalism’s food is audience – readers or viewers. The pond was once a...

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The Washington Post Screws It Up

Those were the days…. and they were a long time ago… The Washington Post announced yesterday that they were firing VJs Pierre Kattar and Travis Fox. Matthew Ingram blogs that this is really about a fight between the paper...

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1,000 Flipcams in Newark

Click Here To Link To Knight Foundation Project [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ml21ZWGqCg[/youtube] As you may recall, some time ago I had an idea to try and place 1,000 flipcams in Gaza. While I am still working on that one, (which is a...

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Like Magic

He saw the future before it happened.. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic -Arthur C. Clarke “Profiles of the Future” 1961 Arthur C. Clarke, who died last March was a science fiction author, but also a great...

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