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.
Why Anyone Can Make Great Films and Video Right Now
I have been drawn into a conversation on LinkedIn about film and video. The group is called Film and Television Professionals and the specfic discussion that caught my eye was: “Now that Digital video cameras are affordable and take such good...
Read moreIs The Media Universe Headed to A Cold Death?
And that pretty much explains it all… There is a reaons I dropped out of Advanced Physics. Like most people in the media business, anything vaguely mathematical makes MEGO (My Eyes Glaze Over). The formual above is The Second...
Read moreMy Memories of My Life in Auschwitz – courtesy of Wikipedia
Well, there goes the whole theory of ‘crowd sourcing’. I don’t have much of a Wikipedia entry (feel free to add to it if you like – everyone else does).. but for several years it has been the focus...
Read moreNew Moneymaking Opportunities in Online Video
It’s a whole new world for moneymaking in the world of online video. We are at the dawning of a new age – Cable networks are worried. And Netflix is only the leading edge – they show what could...
Read moreOur Increasingly Shortened Attentio…. #BORING #sorry
Cody Johns on VINE NOW THIS NEWS, the one year old online news service, potential heir to the New York Times or NBC Nightly News, except entirely online announced this week that it has hired Cody Johns as...
Read moreWhy The Middle Class Is Getting Massacred
I am reading the excellent “Wilson” by A. Scott Berg, the definitive biography of President Woodrow Wilson. Wilson was in many ways the first ‘modern’ President – first press conferences, first to visit Europe, a lover of golf, movies...
Read moreGiant Video Walls!
Suddenly, it’s everywhere In 1990, SONY wanted to put a giant video screen they called the Jumbotron at the southern end of Times Square. It was, at the time, cutting edge technology. Measuring 42 feet x 23 feet, it...
Read moreSky News’ Joe Daunt Shoots His Own Marathon on an iPhone for Air
POV. Joe Daunt, a VJ reporter we trained for Sky News’ Tyne and Wear (near Newcastle, UK), sent me this report that aired last week. He took part in the BUPA (it’s a health company in the UK) Great...
Read moreStorytelling Comes To Commercials – And Not Too Expensive!
The Summer Movie Season was nothing short of a disaster – a commercial disaster and a creative disaster. Earlier this year, Steven Spielberg predicted the collapse of the megabudget movie system. Bombs like The Lone Ranger or Pacific Rim...
Read moreThe Miller’s Tale in #140
In September 1463, William of Ilkeston was walking on the road to the yearly fair (or Faire) in Nottingham, England. Trade fairs were a fairly new invention of the Middle Ages (or as it was then called, Modern...
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