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.
Curation vs. Creation
Down the drain…. Yesterday, I got sucked into a twitter discussion (if such a think is possible) with Shira Lazar, the new host of CBS’s What’s Trending, Steve Rosenbaum, author of Curation Nation and a few others after I...
Read moreLet’s Talk About What We’re Already Talking About….
[youtube]http://youtu.be/GSunqVN84vQ[/youtube] And now.. even more of the same…. The web is the place where you never have to meet an opinion you don’t agree with…. One of the great things about a book or a newspaper is that you...
Read moreHow To Write A Script Without Any Paper
It’s in here.. somewhere. If you are like most people, you go out and shoot the elements of your film or video. Then you come back and sit down for the tedious task of video editing or film editing....
Read moreWe Are Getting Dumber and Dumber (are you still with me?)
still famous… In the future, Andy Warhol said in the 60s, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes. Truer words were never spoken. But now, 15 minutes of fame is a lifetime. It’s more like 15 seconds. Are you...
Read moreHow To Interview People In The Digital Age
That’s a mighty big camera you got there Mr. TV Reporter! Television is an industry wracked by anxiety. (This could possibly explain WEtv’s decision to commission a season of Cupcake Sisters, but more on that another time) Today, we’re...
Read moreParade Magazine Bootcamp with iMovie11
The staff at Parade Magazine start their lessons in iMovie A few days ago I wrote ‘will iMovie replace Final Cut’? It was something of a specious question, but there is no question that iMovie 11 is a remarkably...
Read moreHow To Get People to Watch Your Videos – Live Webcast at 5
They blew it up! Do you remember this scene? Charlton Heston rides up the shore and then suddenly, the shadow comes over him. It’s the Statue of Liberty Planet of the Apes! The final scene. Even now, it sends...
Read moreWin a Fellowship To Change TV News
CBS News 2011                  CBS News 1962 OK. It’s 1962 and you’ve tuned into The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite. There’s Walter Cronkite (the anchor...
Read moreNewspapers Increasingly Move To Video
You really think so? “Titanic’s Got Talent? I dunno…. OK. I’ll tap.. you sing…” There is an old expression that says ‘necessity is the mother of invention’. Nothing could be further from the truth. On the contrary, new...
Read moreWhy TV Sucks – Part III
Television The most powerful medium in the world. The remarkable ability to manipulate images, sound, music, writing, graphics. For 70 years, we have left it to the TV networks to do with it as they might. This is what...
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