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 Ziff-Davis Seems To Have No Idea About Video At All
[youtube]http://youtu.be/xn93nY2l1_k[/youtube] Its eWeek, but I think the week was March 2, 1973 The video above is from a website called Eweek.com I was drawn to the site by a twitter reference to an article called “5 Ways To Build...
Read moreHow To Make Great Wedding Videos?
No kidding.. they did their own videos with a flipcam… An estimated 1 billion people watched the Royal Wedding last month. Everyone loves a wedding, and for most people, it’s the single most important day of their lives. (For...
Read moreGil Scott Heron Dead at 62 – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
[youtube]http://youtu.be/BS3QOtbW4m0[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Gil Scott Heron, Godfather of rap and hip hop dead at 62. Heron’s greatest hit, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised was a fascinating commentary on how conventional network TV ignored, and would ignore the struggle of...
Read moreFashion Magazines and Not So Fashionable Video
Very slick, very high end, very well done Welcome to the world of Marie Claire, a very high-end women’s fashion magazine. It is slick Its photograhic images are stunning. Like every other newspaper and magazine in the world, Marie...
Read more30 Rock, NBC, Youtube and The Age of the Universe
Something very big and basic is happening Youtube just released its latest numbers and they are truly astonishing. People are now uploading video to Youtube at the rate of 48 hours of content every minute This is almost...
Read moreCan You Use Video To Sell A House?
Can you turn this into compelling video? HGTV remains our ‘go to’ place when there is nothing else on to watch – which is often. The inherent drama or House Hunters (which one will they buy) combined with the...
Read moreKRON/4, The VJ & Time Has Caught Up, finally
Here’s a total reprint from today’s SF Public Press When we did KRON/4 we were called everything from a pig to a dog. But we were right then. And we are right now. Here’s my favorite quote: This model...
Read moreIt’s Graduation Week
Thank God… This week we are at my nephew’s graduation from Washington University in St. Louis. It’s graduation time all over the country, and thousands of parents and families now have the rare priviledge of sitting in a big...
Read moreHigh Flier in the DSLR Niche
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oif7wrrLZBI[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/oif7wrrLZBI[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oif7wrrLZBI&feature=email[/youtube] Do you like this? buckle up Like video above? Me too. It was done with a DSLR camera. Note the nice shallow depth of field! Destinationluxury. A video company that has decided to focus on the...
Read moreBetter Late Than Never Dept.
All screens are pretty much the same. In 1994, The New York Times bought a videojournalism business IÂ had founded called VNI, Video News International. I had equipped 100 journalists around the world with Hi-8 (this was a long timea...
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