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.
Make Your Own Cable Channel At Home for Fun and Profit
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k2eZ7heYQ0[/youtube] Spacevidcast OK A few days ago I posted some rather astonishing video from NASA accompanied by some pretty lame narration. Engineers. I said there was enormous potential here for someone with an entrepreneurial bent. The next day I...
Read moreNASA – Great Engineering – Terrible Producers
Earthrise Some years ago, Kevin Kelly published a book entitled The Home Planet. It was a collection of some of the most astonishing photographs from space I have ever seen. I still have it. What made the book particularly...
Read morePhilip Roth, Polio and Video
Philip Roth, author I have just finished reading Nemesis, the most recent of Philip Roth’s novels. I like Roth. He is my favorite writer. And the thing about reading a book, particularly fiction, is that it captures you in...
Read moreStonewall, Gay Rights, Cyndi Lauper & Me
40 Years Ago AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, the PBS television series and WGBH, the PBS station in Boston have joined together to offer a video competition prize entitled Stonewall Riots and Gay Rights in 2011. This is interesting in and of itself. What...
Read moreWhy TV Is Dead – But Doesn’t Know It Yet
Hello? Anyone home? Craig Engler, and executive at SyFy network has published a list of 10 Reasons Why Every TV Exec Has To Start Tweeting. This insightful piece comes, ironically, a day after The New York Times revealed that...
Read moreIs This The Future of Video Journalism?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjyFwbSNh4o&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=MLGxdCwVVULXcPa4GXPxJhfxKPN4kc7vU7[/youtube] News meets hip hop through video… maybe Yesterday we looked at the top ten video series on the web for the month of October. The astonishing thing about them was that they are almost all derivatives of music...
Read moreYelling Fire in a Crowded Theater
silence! I was more than a little astonished to see Diane Feinstein writing in The Wall Street Journal yesterday, attacking Julian Assange and Wikileaks, and using the defense of ‘yelling fire in a crowded theater’ as some kind of...
Read moreThe Importance of Character-Driven Stories
Doesn’t really matter where he goes now… Today I want to talk to you about one of the most important aspects of making a compelling video and that is casting – or having a character. We are storytellers. Even...
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