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.
The Facts Before Your Eyes
The Jurassic Coast, England Until 1790, everyone knew that the earth was 4004 years old. Everyone. Exactly 4004 years. This was not a religious dogma subscribed to by a few school boards in Texas, this was then accepted as...
Read moreBarbarians at the Gate
Tonight, on American Idol….. I am about half-way through Susan Wise Bauer’s The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade. It is a fascinating book. Fascinating because it deals with a period...
Read moreA Roadmap for Video for the 21st Century
When photography moved from craft to art… Sometimes change appears right before your eyes… or in this case, under your feet. The Museum of Modern Art in NY (MoMA) is opening an exhibition of the photographic work of Henri...
Read moreFathers and Sons
My father, Robert Rosenblum, in 1952 I spent the years 1977-79 traveling around the world with a camera. I once thought I would be a photojournalist, and this seemed the best way to start. My father was deeply disappointed...
Read moreUSA Today Outsources Content to Demand Media
The future has to start somewhere…. OK So here’s the situation: You have newspapers, magazines and TV stations that need more and more content as the web and iPhones continue to consume stuff all the time. At the same...
Read moreWiFi at the Monastery
6 bedrooms, 3 baths, built in 1274. Good condition. This week we are living at Renscombe Farm in the village of Worth Matravers on the south coast of England. The house was once a monastery, built in the 13th...
Read moreWhy I Won’t Fly American Airlines
Look out, she’s got a ruler! OK Today’s blog was going to be about the ‘grammar of video’. But not after yesterday’s experience with American Airlines. We were flying from St. Kitts to Miami, and then on to NY,...
Read moreJanet Street Porter Does Not Get It
Who? For Americans, the name Janet Street Porter does not mean a thing. But in the UK she has been very well known as one of those people perpetually on the cutting edge of the media revolution. Which is...
Read moreOut Of The Picture
Definitely don’t move… Margaret Bourke-White was on the cutting edge of a lot of change. She was a woman photographer when there were almost none. She was a war correspondent, photog for Life Magazine, member of Magnum. She traveled...
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