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.
We Launch A New Network
Felipe Leite in the Canadian Rockies We have been silent for the past two weeks because we have been working on a very big project that will impact on everyone who makes video. Now, we are ready to go...
Read moreMind-Blowing comScores for Online Video
NY Times Mark Bittman makes video for the paper We’ve always said that the web mandates video. This was based on the pure logic that we see the web on screens and screens carry video, and well, people like...
Read moreHow iPhones Will Change Television News – if we’re lucky
This is Walter Kigali. He is with the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees. He was part of the training we just completed in Nairobi. Like all the other UN people we trained, he works in some of the...
Read moreEmpowering the United Nations To Report On Their Own
Yesterday, CNN suffered a journalistic disaster It reported that the Supreme Court had thrown out ObamaCare. Wrong! The ‘reporter’ who did this was Kate Bolduan The 2005 graduate of George Washington University who previously worked for a local TV...
Read moreAt Video Bootcamp in Nairobi with the UN
We are here in Nairobi with the United Nations training them to shoot and cut and upload their own video using an iPhone. The UN people here work with UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and they...
Read moreSONY NX 30
We’re always on the look-out for new gear. Here’s the SONY NX30. It’s a hand-held size palmcorder with two very interesting features: 1. incredible lens stabilization 2. built-in projector (!) which I like a lot Here are the details...
Read moreIs Facebook the next Irish Real Estate Bubble? Is Ireland a better bet?
Ah Ireland. The Celtic Tiger Now the Celtic basket case – along wth Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Iceland.. you name it… Borrow vast sums of money to build houses. Â How could this go wrong? Real estate prices always go...
Read moreiPhone Millionaire – The blurbs are on the jacket now
OK The blubs on the book jacket are done. Who would have thought that so much work went into something like this. And yes, there will be a Kindle edition coming out as well – complete with videos! Meanwhile,...
Read moreSteve Backshaw, The BBC & The Deadly 60
We are in London this week to run another session of The Guardian Media Academy in partnership with The Guardian. Still not too late to sign up! In any event, we checked into Claridges and the TV in the...
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