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.

Kodachrome

Gives us the nice, bright colors… This week, the Kodak Company announced that it was going to discontinue the manufacture of Kodachrome film. For anyone under the age of 40, that announcement meant absolutely nothing. But for those of...

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Spawn Journalism

Survival of the fittest Last night, BBC America ran a David Attenborough documentary on Darwin. You probably could not run this on an American network, as it did not give time to ‘intelligent design’, but for the UK it...

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Many Voices

A digital mosaic of the world in real time We are a world whose parameters are set by technology, yet we are slow to respond. When the technology of communications allowed us only 3 television channels, all programs were...

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Al Atwitter

tell me something…. I was on the Curtis Sliwa show on ABC Talkradio last night. The topic was Twitter and Iran. Of course, it’s easy and self-evident to say that web based programs like Twitter are driving part of...

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Monk v. Ayatollah

Local author… Although Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1452, the true political impact of that technology was not really realized until 1517. It was then that Martin Luther (pictured above) a disgruntled Monk from Wittenberg, Germany, began to...

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Immersive Journalism

The art surrounds you… I just got off the phone (if that is not too archaic a term) with Bucharest, Romania. I was the keynote speaker at the Romania Media Conference. They originally offered to fly me to Bucharest,...

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1984

Orwellian Sixty years ago this week, on June 8, 1949, Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s novel was published. Today, it is still going strong and has sold millions of copies. More than that, it has left an indellible impact on...

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iPhone Future

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCo6-KhZT4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2F2009%2F06%2F14%2Fiphone-os-macbook-pro-24-multitouch-screen%2F&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Sweden on the cutting edge again… The Swedish site Dremfeld.se has posted a video pushing an iPhone through a Mac with a touchscreen. The idea is intriguing and it opens a door to what the next generation of...

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Bigger News Than 9/11

Stop the presses!!! Last night I felt bad for The New York Times. We watched The Daily Show, and in one taped segement, ‘correspondent’ Jason Jones went to visit The New York Times, and proceeded to make snarky comments...

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And Here’s Why PBS is Toast

Neil Shapiro, President WNET…. I have a soft spot in my heart for WNET/13, the PBS station in NY (though licensed in Newark, NJ technically). I had my first TV job at WNET and they allowed me to move...

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