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 Networks Are Toast
Not anymore… This morning I took part in an online discussion entitled “How Do We Adapt To TV’s Digital Collision” on the Guardian website. I started by saying “TV is dead”. I like this for two reasons: Â First, there’s...
Read moreWhat The Travel Channel Could Be… but isn’t
A novel look at life inside China today….. The Travel Channel, which has been in decline since Scripps took it over a few years ago has now reached what I hope is the ‘bottom of the barrel’, but one...
Read moreMeasuring the Impact
Every month, I contribute to something called The Carnival of Journalism. Members are asked to blog on the last Friday of each month on a single topic. This month’s topic is: Â “How Do We Measure Impact?” Of course,...
Read moreHow To Make Great Travel Videos
At the Center for Communications Last night Lisa and I did a seminar before about 400 people at the Center for Communications on ‘How To Make Great Travel Videos’. While we are always happy to explain the basics of what...
Read more5 New Video Editing Apps for your iPhone
You push the button, we do the rest….. I have been on jury duty all this week for the State of New York. The last time I did jury duty, you sat in hard wooden chairs in a green-painted...
Read moreLaunch Of A New Concept For Video
Let us now praise…… We are all creatures of habit. Once we have learnt an old way of doing something, it takes us a long time to unlearn it. When new technologies come along, we have a natural human...
Read moreWho Is Humphrey Cheung?
Humphrey Cheung is a new kind of journalist. Let’s call him a tech-journalist He didn’t go to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He didn’t start on a newspaper. He was an IT guy who worked in tech journalism....
Read moreWords With Friends – Reaching for a dictionary that isn’t there
Reaching for cyberspace…. Like everyone else, apparently, I have moved from wasting hours on Freecell to wasting hours on Words With Friends. This is considered a more ‘social’ game, (as you play it with other people). While I try...
Read moreTrojan Wars v. Cupcake Wars – You Decide
There’s a message for you…. Yesterday, I had a meeting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Met has what is probably the world’s finest art collection, and while they have always made films and DVDs...
Read moreThe GOP Money Wagon Rolls Into Illinois
And this week……more of the same…. I am not going to get involved in politics here. Who you vote for is your business. I do want to talk about what is rapidly becoming the world’s longest- running (and least...
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