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.
Digital Feudalism
Bless you, my Lord Murdoch.. Bless you… Your average peasant walking around feudal Europe did not spend their lives going, ‘you know what? This system sucks’. On the contrary, they were pretty much incapable of seeing the world organized...
Read moreMao & Murdoch, Lies and Videotape
Before there were Flipcams… “Power”, Chairman Mao wrote in the Little Red Book, “flows from the barrel of a gun”. Mao was a product of an earlier era. It turns out that increasingly, power flows from the lens of...
Read moreWill Viddy be the next Twitter but for Video?
Brett O’Brien, co-founder of Viddy The shocking demise of Flipcam last week became even more shocking when it was revealed that Cisco was about to release a new version of Flipcam that streamed video direclty to the web. This...
Read moreWhen Your World Gets Blown Apart
The iPad of the 19th Century The New York Times reported yesterday that nationally people are at a ‘low mood’ when they think about the future of the economy and the nation. There are short-term fixes, but in a longer...
Read moreFreedom to Fail
Loser! Thomas Edison understood the concept of the lightbulb. What he had a problem with was finding the right filament for the thing. It took him more than 9,000 tries until he hit on the idea of carbonized bamboo...
Read moreand now… Augmented Reality
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBKy-hSedg8&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] Now you see it, now you see more of it This one is called Augmented Reality or Mediated Reality. It has been around, in one form or another since the 1990s, and has, until now, mostly been seen...
Read more411 on FCPX
April 15, 2011 4:00 AM PDT The skinny on Final Cut Pro X (FAQ) by Josh Lowensohn (Credit: Apple) Apple this week unveiled the next major version of Final Cut Pro, the company’s video-editing software that plays big...
Read more[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h_sZQHe0Vg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube] If this is ‘state of the art’, I think we can all do better… For a long time we have been saying that video will soon become the dominant medium online for just about everything – from...
Read moreWhy Cisco Killed the Flipcam
Like an episode of House You have to wonder why Cisco killed the Flip. Sales were up. So up, in fact, that the Flip controlled 35% of the camcorder market. And, apparently, Flip was going to release a really...
Read more2 Chances to win $$ with your video
Here’s your chance! OK Every once in a while an opportunity arises to make some money out of your video. Today, I have TWO! First, Nokia is offering you $5000 to support ‘making your film’ (if they accept your...
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