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 Anti Islam Video and Why Gawker Doesn’t Get It – astonishingly
Truly – it sucks! Above, you can see the YouTube clip that has set much of the Islamic World ablaze and resulted in the tragic death of four American diplomats. I don’t want to get into the politics of...
Read moreCan the iPhone5 Change The TV News World?
From Apple’s new promotional video Today, Apple released the long-awaited iPhone5. It looks pretty good, at least on their video. Expectations are so strong on this one product that JP Morgan forecast that sales of the iPhone5 alone may boost...
Read moreOlloclip Lenses for the iPhone
Yesterday, Melissa Flemming from UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (the group we have been training to shoot their own video with an iPhone in world hot-spots) and her family dropped by our NY apartment. Her husband...
Read moreSky Reporter Joe Daunt and the iPhone
Joe Daunt<iframe width=”620″ height=”350″ src=”http://tyneandwear.sky.com/embed/video/30516″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> Joe Daunt, Videojournalist for UK based Sky Sports in Newcastle sent me the piece above. Shot entirely on an iPhone, Daunt is proof that the future for news and online video is...
Read moreApple TV – The Final Frontier
Who needs a network? There is a lot of buzz in the blogosphere, in the regular press and this morning on CBS News about Apple’s latest about to be relaeased maybe Apple TV. That would make it the Apple...
Read moreThe New York Times, The BBC & Video
The future face of The New York Times The New York Times Company today announced that they were hiring Mark Thompson, former Director General of The BBC to be the new President and CEO of The Times Company. The...
Read more500 Channels and Nothing to Watch
now this is exciting… Have you ever sat in front of your TV and flipped through the cable channels, channel after channel after channel and found nothing to watch? It happens all the time. The addition of the ‘guide’...
Read moreThe Machine Gun and the Media
There is an old expression that goes ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. Ever hear it? Nothing could be further from the truth. In point of fact, the world works in exactly the opposite way. New inventions come along...
Read moreHarry Potter and the iPhone
Christ Church College – Oxford University This week I have been attending a course on the History of the British Empire at Christ Church College, Oxford University in England. Christ Church is known for many things, but based on...
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