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.
The New Industrial Revolution
My 6-year old is on my Mac all the time…. I always like to spend time in Britain. It’s the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, and the place where our world was born. The arrival of harnessed waterpower and...
Read moreJaw Dropping Digital Future
A breath-taking demonstration of digital power by Blaise Aguera y Arcas, inventor of Seadragon, speaking at TED last year. Watch this.
Read moree Ink Responds
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n2xxqMQyfY[/youtube] Zack Wilson, who works in our office (ZW on comments) notes that we should not write off eInk quite so fast in our praise of the coming iTablet from Apple. eInk, demonstrated not so well above (eInk may...
Read moreRoll Over Beethoven
How long has this been going on? Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony runs 74 minutes. That is a long time. But if y0u were a music fan in 1815 and wanted to catch a little of the Ninth, you couldn’t just...
Read moreApple’s iTablet?
How many video aps can you imagine? Amazon sold close to a half million Kindles last year and may sell even more this year, but Kindle has an inherent structural problem – it only can carry text. Wired is...
Read moreDoes Twitter Lead to a Monoculture?
Under the skin, all exactly the same… Yet another new piece of software for Twitter, this one called Twittertrends, now allows everyone to see what top ten topics everyone else is twittering about at any given moment. As Techcrunch...
Read moreI Am Mister Ed
You never heard of a talking horse? I used to teach a course at NYU called “Television and the Information Explosion”. I didn’t invent the name of the course, I just inherited it. It was a stupid name, and...
Read moreYour Unemployed Future
Once I had a newspaper, made it run….. As a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (’83) I watch with a mixture of incredulity and sadness as legions of my classmates and alumni hit the streets...
Read moreWhen 35mm and Video Meet
Panasonic merges all the advantages of 35mm with video… I started my career as a still photographer. I liked working as a photojournalist. The gear was light weight and working by yourself gave you a chance to be both...
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