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.
Bikini Car Wash
Not too long ago, one of our less than supportive friends (hard to believe but true), was asking ‘what happened to all the VJs from 5Takes? Are they working’. Well, strangely enough, yesterday, I ran in to Francisco Aliwalas,...
Read moreIt really IS the end of the world….
And the winner is……. “Are we living in the last century of our civilization? Is it possible that all of our technology, knowledge and wealth cannot save us from ourselves? Could our society actually be heading towards collapse? -From...
Read moreMeanwhile, back on earth….
200 years in the future, and the only black woman on board is STILL the receptionist. Not to demonstrate my age, nor my geek childhood, but when I was a kid, Star Trek was my favorite show. The plots...
Read moreWhere Are the VJ Jobs?
OK. Spread out….. One of my favorite BBC series, Life On Mars apparently is coming to the US. I have no doubt that whatever US network picks it up will mangle it in a remake, much like The Office,...
Read moreNewspapers to Video 3
All across the country, newspapers are racing to embrace video. It makes sense. First newspapers go the web because it’s the best way for them to get their information into people’s homes. Then, the web goes to video. The...
Read moreShhhhhh…..
who? Spent all this week working with a major publishing client to convert their very well known print products to video. Can’t talk about it. Publisher says so. Then, got an email from a good friend executive inside a...
Read moreThe New Economics
Shall we dance? Billionaire Mark Cuban asks the following question on his blog: “Are content producers prepared to reduced production costs….by 88%” Cuban asks this as a rhetorical question, trying to demonstrate the almost destructive economics of video and...
Read moreOn in 3….2…..
Two weeks to go…. I graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. It was so long ago, that we still used manual typewriters. It was so long ago, that we still cut video on RM450s. (wait…some...
Read moreLearning To Live With Infinity
When will it ever end……. Since we first crawled out of the primordeal soup some millenia ago, we have lived in a world of limitations. We quickly learned that after a while we ran out of food…. or water…...
Read moreWe Report…You Decide
Across the blogosphere, many ‘professional’ journalists decry the VJ movement and Citizen Journalism because it is going to ‘debase’ the ‘quality’ of ‘professional’ newsgathering. (so many quotation marks this morning!) Here then, a fantastic example of the professionalism we...
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