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.
411 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...
Read moreHow the West Came to Dominate The World
not a particularly promising future… Niall Ferguson is my favorite historian. His newest book, Civilization: The Rest and the West is not going down so well among the more politically correct, or one might say, politically sensitive. It’s a...
Read moreGoogle/Youtube says “Networks Can’t Cut It Anymore”
I stole this shot from The NYÂ Times…. It was inevitable. Youtube and online video chow through material. Today, people are uploading to Youtube at a breathtaking rate of 35 hours of video a minute. A minute. Conventional production companies...
Read moreAnd Now – The Director’s Head on the Block
And now, it’s the Director’s turn… The march of technology is relentless. CollabraCam has just released a new iPhone app that allows you to wifi link up to four cameras, switch them and then edit the final product (including...
Read moreAn Open Call for New York Video Stories
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcKQV4vfy0A[/youtube] Their reel – so far As you all know, we have entered into a relationship with New York Magazine, the definitive pubication for New Yorkers. Now the magazine is putting a toe in the water in the world of...
Read moreNow Video is Driving Phone Design
Motorola Droid XÂ – Bigger If you wanted an indication of the coming power of the next-gen video (on smart devices as opposed to TV) you could not do better than to look at the ‘shape of things to...
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