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.

How To Get Started in Cable – Advice TO Time/Warner

St. Martin’s harbor, Ile de Re, France We got back last night from Ile de Re, France (see above). Coming into Newark after this was traumatic enough, but this morning, when I went to turn on the TV set,...

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How To Be The Rockefeller of Video

John D. Rockefeller I am reading TITAN, THE LIFE OF JOHN D ROCKEFELLER by Ron Chernow. This is a fascinating and absolutely captivating book, but also one with lessons for those of us in the burgeoning video business. Rockefeller started as a very...

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How a 16-Year Old With A Camcorder Built an Online Video Business

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCxcnogHs9M&feature=fvst[/youtube] A different kind of hyperlocal Jamal Edwards was a 16-year old kid in London who got a camcorder for his birthday. He used it to start videoing the things he was interested in – the hip hop scene...

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Is This The Worst Hyperlocal News Site in America?

Like most people, I am inundated with emails from Vice Presidents of banks in Nigeria. They tell me that I have been specially selected to help move $58 million from an account in Nigeria (generally one belonging to someone with...

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Eric Schmidt on the Future of Computing and Television

Eric Schmidt, Google CEO I don’t normally like to lift texts from other publications, but in this case I am going to make an exception. The following is an excerpt from Eric Schmidt’s MacTaggart Lecture, delivered yesterday at the...

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TV News On The Rebound- Thanks to “Multiskilling”(VJ)

Not exactly…. A few years ago, when we were starting the first of our local operations with Verizon, one of our new hires showed up for the first day of work in a pencil tight gold dress and high...

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Video Lessons From a 12th Century French Abbey

The cutting edge of media – in the 12th Century This week, Lisa and I find ourselves living the Les Deux Abbesses, a hotel deep in the Haute Loire region of France. The hotel is actually a converted 12th...

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The Untapped Future

A whole new world was born here…. In 1936, Saudi Arabia was listed as one of the poorest countries in the world. It was little more than barren desert. It’s GNP was far south of Somalia’s. It was sparsely...

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Saving Patch… and AOL

Lots of potential.. if… In 2007, Tim Armstrong and Jon Brod founded Patch Media, a hyperlocal news site (or network of sites), after Armstrong grew frustrated that he could not find out anything about what was happening in his...

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Why NBC Is Closer To The Middle Ages than it is to Youtube

Just a second, I want to send a tweet about The Reformation… I have just emerged from a week spent in an 11th Century castle in Tuscany with friends and family (my wife, their family, which is fine). What made the...

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