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.
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...
Read moreTV 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...
Read moreVideo 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...
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreSaving 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...
Read moreWhy 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...
Read moreHow To Shoot An Interview – And How NOT To Shoot An Interview
IÂ just screened a piece done by a videojournalist who works for us. Terrible. CTLL (clear the timeline) territory. She had recently graduated from a journalism program at a university that we often hire from. The first thing we...
Read moreObama – Our First Reality Show President
Can he make it to the final? “You are what you eat”, or more properly, ‘tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are’ said the 18th Century French epicure Brillant-Savarin. In France, eating was...
Read moreIs Facebook Total Bullshit?
At last, something real I have spent the past few days taking long walks in the Cotswolds, in England. The nice thing about England (one of many) is the ‘right of passage’ laws that allows you to cross otherwise...
Read moreThe Museum of Soon-to-be-Obsolete Technology
The half-life of technologie has never been fast. Critical must- have today, a worthless piece of junk tomorrow. The turn-around time has never been fast. LP records lasted for about 70 years until cassette tape drove them out. But...
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