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.

How 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...

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Google/Youtube says “Networks Can’t Cut It Anymore”

I stole this shot from The NY 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...

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Social Video

This is New York calling…… When new technologies come along we have a tendency to take them and plug them into our old established ways of thinking about the world. When the radio was invented in the 1920s, it...

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And 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...

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An 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...

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Now Video is Driving Phone Design

Motorola Droid X  – 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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ABC News 57 South Bend – are you kidding?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwq3AE6hhjI&feature=related[/youtube] mind boggling… A few years ago I was on one of those panels run by Jeff Jarvis on  The Future of the Media. In this one we were invited to break into teams to try and figure out...

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Andy Warhol meets Paula Deene and Cream Cheese – really

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=2Aw8KqjX5CY[/youtube] So spreadable, it’s incredible.. or is that something else? Andy Warhol once said, ‘in the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes’. He was not wrong. Paula Deene, as you can see, is today launching her newest...

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Will There Always Be A 6:30 Evening News? Katie Couric Says No

couric soon to be gone Will there always be a network news show to tune into at 6:30? Katie Couric, current anchor of the CBS Evening News says, ‘no’. At least she does in Huffington Post today. I would...

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Report from the NY Magazine Video Academy

The group on the second day We’ve just entered into a partnership with New York Magazine to create The New York Magazine Video Academy. This is a video bootcamp, largely reflective of nyvs training but hands on, and with...

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