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  • Ski & Shoot

    Could you go back and do that again? I didn’t learn to ski until I was 40. My ex was a Canadian, and started skiing at the age of 3. Her parents had a ski house in Sugarbush, Vermont. I spent unpleasant hour after hour on the bunny slope, learning how to ski. When you [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 10:40pm EST
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  • New Location for Blog

    Hello! This blog will now be part of our new website at http://www.rosenblumtv.com/ for a better experience, more community interaction, and more features.  This location of the blog will no longer be updated. Please update your links and RSS feeds – see you there! [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 4:15pm EST
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  • Welcome to the Video Revolution

    call now. operators are standing by… The Travel Channel Academy is a great course, but its also expensive. $2000 is a lot to commit for a novice, (not that we don’t have our share of novices in the course). But what we do have is a lot of folks who would like to [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2009, 8:38am EST
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  • Chain Reaction

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    Chicago reactor team. Enrico Fermi, first row, first on left. For more than a year, physicist Enrico Fermi and his team had been building a pile of blocks under the racquet courts at the University of Chicago. The pile was made of alternating bricks of uranium and graphite. Inserted into the pile were [...]
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    Posted: February 15, 2009, 11:15am EST
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  • Quality?

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    Much hysteria on the blogosphere of late as first WUSA in Washington, DC and then yesterday KPIX in San Francisco announce that they are going VJ. The quality! The quality! The quality will suffer!!! Viewers will leave in droves because without a professional cameraman, the quality will deteriorate. As if this were a given. Nonsense. I [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2009, 6:05pm EST
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  • KPIX in San Francisco goes VJ

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    Two down, three to go… KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco announced today that they are moving to a VJ-driven newsroom. The official press release today said: Ti Feb 11, 2009 3:58 PM ESTKPIX management told the staff today the station intends to go VJ within a year, pending union contract re-negotiations. The station’s [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 6:27pm EST
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  • The World’s First Liquidity Crisis

    The in-laws arrive for sunday brunch…. Watching Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner yesterday on CNN was a terrifying experience. The depth of the current financial crisis is far more than a mere recession. Trillions of dollars seem to have effectively disappeared. This is bad. Very bad. It is a financial crisis of epic proportions, and [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 7:40am EST
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  • Right Facts, Wrong Conclusion

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    Gets it… but doesn’t… Columnist and writer Michael Kinsley in the New York Times today opines, You Can’t Sell News by the Slice. Kinsley, like everyone else, is grappling with the search for the Holy Grail of how to keep newspapers alive. In the course of his grappling he posts some interesting statistics: Newspaper [...]
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    Posted: February 10, 2009, 9:43am EST
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  • Travel Channel Academy Results

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    Jeff Day had never touched a video camera or an edit system before he walked into the Travel Channel Academy course in DC on Thursday. We put him through our extremely rigorous 4-day video bootcamp. We emphasize excellence. The video above is the first video Jeff Day has ever made. Pretty impressive. And Jeff Day [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 12:35pm EST
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  • Travel Channel Academy - DC

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    Posted: February 07, 2009, 6:52pm EST
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  • Only Yesterday

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    reporting on their own demise… In 1981, KRON4 (of all people) ran the story embedded above. It was about a radical new experiment.  A newspaper in San Francisco was putting its newspaper online. As the story says, it was not going to read by a lot of people. Only 3-4,000 people in the [...]
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    Posted: February 06, 2009, 10:22am EST
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  • Tune in Tonight!

    I am going to be a guest again on Curtis Sliwa’s show on ABC talk radio tonight at 11:20 pm. Take that, Jeff Jarvis!  You may be invited to speak at Davos, but I am on Curtis! [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2009, 6:57pm EST
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  • Travel Channel Academy - DC

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    Now… more than ever Yesterday we wrapped up the bootcamp for the staff of The Travel Channel and this morning we are starting another Travel Channel Academy here in DC at Travel Media HQ. As the economy comes under increasing pressure, ironically, the demand for high quality, low cost video only increases. If [...]
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    Posted: February 05, 2009, 10:25am EST
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  • A New Industrial Revolution

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    Upsetting… yet productive Yesterday, Pat Younge, President and GM of The Travel Channel addressed the group here in DC. The group is made up of 40 of his employees, so they paid attention. They are going through the ‘bootcamp’. But they’re not doing it so that they can ‘contribute’ to The Travel Channel. [...]
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    Posted: February 04, 2009, 10:18am EST
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  • Benjamin Franklin - Web Videographer

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    The first blogger I am half way through Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson. It is a teriffic biography of a fascinating and uniquely American character; seminal at a crucial moment in history. Despite his long and deep record of life achievements, including statesman, scientist, scholar, diplomat, creator of volunteer fired [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 11:18am EST
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  • Eyeborg

    Do you see the future? Eyeborg. He is Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence. He lost an eye in an accident, but as a filmmaker, had it replaced with a small video camera. This is not video diaries. He uses the eyecam the way a filmmaker uses a camera. To shoot what he sees. Rob Spence is going [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2009, 11:32am EST
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  • Back To DC

    Up from Atlanta… We left Nevis with plenty of time. You have to take a boat from Nevis to St. Kitts, which is where the airport is.  The country is made up of two islands, Nevis and St. Kitts.  As I say, we left Nevis with plenty of time, and even though [...]
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    Posted: February 02, 2009, 9:24am EST
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  • A Most Demanding Job!

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    Let’s put the studio… here… OK, Sometimes in this profession there are jobs that you just have to do, no matter how much you want to resist. Like this one. We are currently in St. Kitts and Nevis, where we have been hired as media consultants to the government. I know. It’s tough. But you gotta do [...]
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    Posted: January 30, 2009, 6:58am EST
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  • Busted!

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    Jay Russell used to be a South Carolina State Trooper. Then he took the Travel Channel Academy video course, and it changed his life. Now, we’re pitching him as a series for cable. He’s Supernanny…. for kids on drugs. It’s something he’s done all this life. Does this remind you of “In The Heat Of [...]
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    Posted: January 29, 2009, 3:55pm EST
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  • Back To You, Joe

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    Ace VJ Joe Little Well, naturally, the day after I post on TVspy that one of the prime differentiators between VJ and OMB is that we don’t do stand-ups, KGTV/10 VJ Joe Little sends me a link to a Youtube posting that proves me wrong. OK. For the most part, I don’t like [...]
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    Posted: January 27, 2009, 10:29am EST
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  • The Hamas Show

    Is the caller there? The juxtaposition of two seemingly very disparate articles in the newspaper this morning provide a window into where the whole TV news business is headed. First, there is a massive controversy building in the UK today over The BBC’s refusal to air a charity appeal to help the [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2009, 12:02pm EST
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  • Obsolesence

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    Hello? When I was 5 years old we had a phone like the one pictured above. Like everyone else, we didn’t own it, we leased it from Bell Telephone. By the time I left home at 18 to go to college, it was still the same phone. And it worked in the same way. Last [...]
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    Posted: January 25, 2009, 12:10pm EST
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  • Outside The Box

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    Do you have CNN? Henri IV, King of France was one of the seminal figures in French history. Born in 1553 and a Protestant Huguenot, he became King of France in 1589 and founded the Bourbon Dynasty. Henri is perhaps best known for his famous quote “Paris is worth a Mass” for his [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 10:58am EST
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  • My Own TV Show

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    Off for a year ….. David Besemer was a student at the Travel Channel Academy in Santa Barbara last year. He produced one of the better videos, a profile of a small marina ferry and its captain. I had no idea when he took the course that it was a dry run, so [...]
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    Posted: January 21, 2009, 10:51am EST
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  • By What Right

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    What does it mean? New technologies not only obviate old jobs and careers, they also challenge and often undermine old laws. Like copyright. When we run our video training bootcamps, we devote an enormous amount of time to rights and releases.  And, over the years, the constraints on rights and releases have become [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 5:25pm EST
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  • When More is Less

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    On course to wreck the Spanish economy In 1530, Francisco Pizarro, the illegitimate son of a Spanish Colonel crossed the Atlantic with a small force of just 180 men. Two years later, he would overthrow the 500 year old Inca Empire, and rule a population in the millions. How he did it is [...]
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    Posted: January 19, 2009, 11:36am EST
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  • See It Now

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    The google for the 21st Century? If you want to know where the tech world is going, just ask a 9-year old. The New York Times ran a fascinating article this morning about how 9-year olds, (and others) are starting to use Youtube as a search engine, even more than Google. More than [...]
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    Posted: January 18, 2009, 11:38am EST
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  • Success Stories

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    More than just pretty pictures One of our clients is McGraw Hill. Not just the TV stations, of which KGTV is one, but also the magazines. All of them. Our task was to take the magazine into the world of online video by equipping their journalists with video cameras and teaching them to [...]
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    Posted: January 16, 2009, 11:15am EST
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  • Survivor

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    Look! Up in the sky…. My wife’s grandfather was a wheelright in Cambridge, England. In those days wheelright was an honorable (or as they might say, honourable) profession. No more. You don’t run into too many wheelrights these days, unless you are walking around The Colonial Village in Willamsburg, Virginia. Wheelrights when the way of [...]
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    Posted: January 15, 2009, 11:39am EST
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  • When We Come Back….

    Now this… Usually, when we teach a class at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism you get a fairly wide range of students. Yesterday, however, we got two students who were also on the faculty. One of them, Barbara Raab, took a year’s sabbatical from her full-time job as Senior News Writer and Web [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2009, 1:25pm EST
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  • The G Spot

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    It’ s right down there…. We just got off the phone with the Minister for Information for a small but never-the-less important country. We will be going there in a few weeks to start a project to make the country ‘video active’. That is, we are going to train the ministry and others [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2009, 3:13pm EST
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  • Good Enough

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    Mrs. Rosenblum addresses the class at CUNY. Sunday was a crummy day in New York, so we stayed home. I spent most of the day trying to work on my book, but its hard to maintain focus and my mind drifted.  As the aphorism goes, “idle hands are the devil’s workshop”. Having hit [...]
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    Posted: January 12, 2009, 11:30am EST
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  • Who Do They Think They Are?

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    The 17th Duke of Norfolk. President of the Lucky Sperm Club We love to talk about the ‘democratization’ of the media. And it’s not a bad thing to talk about. But it won’t happen overnight, and it won’t happen without a fight. Because ownership of the media is today in a very few hands; [...]
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    Posted: January 11, 2009, 11:27am EST
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  • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

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    It’s right over there… I was walking on Park Avenue yesterday when a tourist with a map in their hands asked me how to get to Grand Central Station. I pointed up the street and said, “just walk through the Pan Am Building and there you are”. As they walked away, I realized [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2009, 11:34am EST
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  • In Gaza

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    Gaza bound… Normally, I don’t write about politics or current events, but today I am going to make an exception. For Gaza. A long time ago, when I was 21, I went to Israel. Following the ususal American Jew goes to Israel itinerary,  I did the rounds of Tel Aviv, the kibbutz work, [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 9:20am EST
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  • The Skype’s The Limit

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    Bell Telephone Pavilion, NY World’s Fair 1964-5 When I was a kid we went to the New York World’s Fair, and after waiting an interminable amount of time, we got into the Bell Telephone exhibit. It was one of the big ones. There they had on exhibit the ‘picturephone’ that we would [...]
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    Posted: January 07, 2009, 6:07pm EST
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  • What TV News Might Be

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    A different vision of what photography could be In 1955, Edward Steichen opened what was then a radical exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It was entitled “The Family of Man“, and it encompassed photographs from 273 photographers from 60 countries around the world. What made The Family of [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 5:06pm EST
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  • The Prize

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    We’re giving it away… Six years ago, I met Philip Hilven for a drink at the Heathrow Hilton. Philip was working for Concentra, one of the larger publishing companies in Belgium. Concentra was in the newspaper business, but they were dabbbling in local cable TV. Philip had heard my speak in Barcelona a [...]
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    Posted: January 05, 2009, 7:29pm EST
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  • Catastrophe

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    Looks like we won’t be publishing on Monday… Some 65 million years ago, an asteroid or comet crashed into Chicxulub on the Yucatan Peninsula in what is today Mexico. The impact was so catastrophic that between the heat from the initial impact and the debris it threw up (enough dust into the [...]
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    Posted: January 04, 2009, 5:23pm EST
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  • The Power of Viral

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    Guardian Angel It was an eye-opening education in the viral power of the ‘new media’ Yesterday, after a fairly long hiatus, I picked up on my blog. I had been turning over a lot of ideas in my week of downtime, and spent a fair amout of time reading. One book I have been [...]
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    Posted: January 02, 2009, 2:53pm EST
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  • A Case for a “King of News”?

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    Capable of seeing all sides of an argument… For many years now, I have been a resident of two countries, the USA and the UK.  That ‘duality’ has taught me to look at the world from several perspectives at the same time. This is a story about newspapers and TV news  [...]
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    Posted: January 01, 2009, 12:17pm EST
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  • Goodbye

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    My dad was buried this morning at Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, NY; with full military honors. Regular blog will resume January 1.        [...]
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    Posted: December 28, 2008, 6:17pm EST
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  • Update

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    My father, Robert Rosenblum, died this morning at 12:30 am, after a very long and protracted illness.  Many thanks to all of you for your good wishes.  It meant a lot to me and the whole family.        [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2008, 3:12am EST
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  • Many Thanks

    MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR YOUR KIND COMMENTS AND EMAILS. THE WHOLE FAMILY WISHES TO EXPRESS ITS GRATITUDE FOR YOUR CONCERN AND SUPPORT AT THIS DIFFICULT TIME.        [...]
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    Posted: December 21, 2008, 11:51am EST
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  • The End of the Road

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    The phone rang at 6am yesterday morning and it was my mother in Miami. I knew it was bad news. “Your father is choking”, she said, “I think he is dying”. I knew this call would be coming for along time.  For more than a year in fact. Yet when it finally does [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2008, 11:22pm EST
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  • The First Internet

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    nonlinear… portable… It’s no secret The newspaper business is in trouble. But it’s not becasue newspapers don’t have value. But I am not so sure that the ‘value’ is in the news. Maybe it’s something else. I grew up on Long Island, NY. And the only newspaper we had on Long Island was Newsday. It was [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 11:57am EST
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  • Where Are Your Priorities?

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    1959 Caddy. But does democracy hinge on this? Washington, it seems, is not prepared to let the auto industry and Detroit go down the tubes. The bail out is going to happen, even if the White House has to fund it itself from the $700 billion rescue fund. While cars are nice, and [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2008, 5:08pm EST
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  • Hello?

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    Mr. Watson, come here… I need you… Sometimes when new technologies come along, they overturn the world of conventional thinking - particularly when it comes to valuation. Take a look at the telephone. Before Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, value was directly married to rarity.  The more rare an object, the more [...]
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    Posted: December 14, 2008, 8:34am EST
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  • WUSA Goes VJ

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    This just in, courtesy of our friend Adrian Monck WUSA Moves to One-Person News Crews By Paul Farhi Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 12, 2008; Page C01 The march of technology and the shrinking economy are beginning to take a toll on the traditional means of television news-gathering: the TV news crew. Under a new [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2008, 8:49am EST
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  • The Privileged Few

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    The J School is the building on the left…. I graduated from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 1983. That was a long time ago. We were a class filled with ambition, fired by Woodward and Bernstein (or Woodruff). We were journalists, with a capital J, and headed for a world in which [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2008, 8:39am EST
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  • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times

    A few years ago, Robin Sloan, who is now CTO at Current produced this incredibly prescient video. It still holds true. As the narrator says, and not to be too trite, ‘it is the best of times, it is the worst of times’.        [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2008, 5:32pm EST
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  • Jury Duty You Can’t Avoid

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    School was never like this….. Yesterday, I was on Jury Duty. Jury Duty at CUNY. That’s City University of New York’s graduate school of journalism. The school is fortunate enough to have Prof. Jeff Jarvis teaching a course there in what he calls ‘entrepreneurial journalism’. When I went to journalism school, (Columbia ‘83), the class [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2008, 10:30am EST
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  • A House of Cards

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    The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind… Drudgereport.com, one of the top websites in the country is an aggregator of other people’s work. My friend Jeff Jarvis calls on websites to be ‘curators’. All of this is great…. but… But at the end of the day, someone has to make the original [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2008, 8:54am EST
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  • Women and Children First

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    And we had 70% market share…. The Day of Reckoning has arrived. Or at least it has started. Sam Zell’s Tribune Company goes Chapter 11. The New York Times is so close to the edge that it has to mortgage its new headquarters to raise $225 million to meet a debt note that comes [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2008, 9:49am EST
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  • The Reckoning

    My old friends Pam Yates and Paco de Onis own Skylight Pictures. They have been documentary filmmakers for years. Real documentary filmmakers. Pam won the Academy Award for Documentaries a few years ago for her film about Guatemala. Now they are about to release The Reckoning.  They’ve been working on it for [...]
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    Posted: December 08, 2008, 3:00pm EST
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  • TC Academy New York

    Today we conclude another session of the Travel Channel Academy in NY.  This afternoon, we will certify another 40 gradautes of the Academy.  We have sessions scheduled for 2009 in NY, DC and Santa Barbara, but places are already filling up.  Take a look.        [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2008, 9:25am EST
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  • The New Star Ledger

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    Star Ledger VJ Andre Malok’s tour de force. Take a look at the quality of the reporting, the shooting, the editing. The whole package. The Newark Star Ledger is recreating itself as a digital content provider. It’s the model for the newspaper of the 21st Century. Could this be the future for newspapers across the [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2008, 9:59pm EST
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  • Dorothy Rodham and Me

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    My newest friend…. Yesterday, I got an email from Dorothy Rodham, Hillary Clinton’s mother. I don’t know Dorothy. Never met her. But the Internet creates all kinds of instant intimacies.  You meet people you never thought you would meet. Here is what she wrote me: Dear Michael, I’m so proud of everything my daughter has accomplished and [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2008, 10:52am EST
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  • News from Newark

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    A shy New Jersey chiaropractor suffers a stroke on a golf course, and his life is suddenly transformed. He can’t stop making art. We were out in Newark this week at a mass meeting to talk about new directions for the paper. As the largest newspaper in New Jersey, and as [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2008, 11:22am EST
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  • If You Bild It….. will they come?

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    Email this morning from Pat Younge, President of the Travel Channel.* He sends me a link from The Guardian, that BILD, the German newspaper has partnered with a German supermarket to sell small cameras and field an army of citizen journalists to feed the paper’s website. Sounds good to me, but I [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2008, 10:11am EST
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  • The Repository of All Human Knowledge

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    what would you like to know…. OK It’s one of those late night Science Fiction movies in which a time traveller goes into the future and discovers that the whole world has become a land in which learning and reading and knowledge are forgotten. Then, our hero discovers a secret cult, buried far [...]
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    Posted: December 03, 2008, 7:25am EST
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  • Hello Bolly

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    She’s the little old lady from Utta Pradesh now… James MacPherson is the publisher of an online website called Pasadena Now. Pasadenanow.com is causing a lot of buzz in the journalism community. Not because it’s hyperlocal news. that’s old stuff.  But because MacPherson has announced he is going to outsource the reporting [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2008, 9:44am EST
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  • Oh wiki wiki world…

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    The Whole Earth Cataloge for the digital age….kind of… About two years ago, someone gave me a heads up that I had an entry in the Wikipedia under my name. Well that was nice, and a certain sign of recognition in the digital age. The entry had been posted by someone in [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2008, 5:42pm EST
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  • The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You

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    First, many thanks to Buck over at b-roll.net. for finding this.  Nice research! Austin likes to think of itself as ‘different’ from the rest of Texas. And now, The Austin American-Statesman takes a giant step in moving from a paper to a digital information center.   They not only reprint articles from The [...]
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    Posted: November 29, 2008, 8:20am EST
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  • The Truman Syndrome

    I’m voting you off the planet…. In 1969 the first man walked on the moon. In 1972, the last man walked on the moon, and we have not been back since. That’s 36 years. For 36 years the moon has still hung there every night.  We have the technology to go. We just opt [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2008, 8:09am EST
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  • The Man Who Came to Breakfast

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    Notice the marmite…… Jeff Jarvis dropped over for breakfast yesterday. Somewhere between Dubai and Davos, he carved out an hour for a few slices of Sullivan Street Bakery sesame bread and white fish salad. He came over to talk about DNA2009. Like Jeff, I attend many conferences. (I can’t turn down an audience).  But [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2008, 7:27am EST
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  • Gresham’s Law

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    World’s first media critic….. Sir Thomas Gresham was an English merchant who worked for both King Edward VI and Queen Elizabeth I (1519-1579) Gresham was also the world’s first media critic, although he didn’t know it at the time. Gresham is best known today among Economics 101 students for what is commonly called [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2008, 7:19am EST
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  • The Word From Down Under

    hopping mad… Pat Younge, President and GM for The Travel Channel sent me a very interesting article from The Australian. JOURNALISTS have been warned they cannot be spectators if they are to survive the new world of media fragmentation and digitalisation — an environment dubbed a “perfect storm”. The impact of new technologies [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2008, 9:53am EST
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  • Only Yesterday

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    Quiet kids, I’m trying to watch Dancing with the Stars…. In the 1920s, a new technology burst upon the scene. Radio. It was unlike anything that had ever existed before. Suddenly, you could hear events and people in your living room, even though they were hundreds or thousands of miles away. God-like. Capturing. And it [...]
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    Posted: November 23, 2008, 7:50am EST
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  • Flipped Out

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    Two weeks ago, I was interviewed by Jemima Kiss from The Guardian. She did the interview using a Mino Flip Cam. She propped it up on a pile of plates and let loose.  Then she plugged it into her laptop, and in a few minutes, my interview was on the Guardian’s website. Now [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2008, 12:58pm EST
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  • CRASH!

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    bye bye SNL… and I have no idea who that guy is… For the past four years, we have had our offices at 1619 Broadway, where we sublet space from Broadway Video and SNL.  It was an interesting place to work. Then, on Tuesday, BV called and said that they had sold [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2008, 8:28am EST
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  • Out of Detroit

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    Motown news When it comes to cutting edge trends, we generally say that California leads and the nation follows. When it comes to contracting industries, maybe that accolade should go to Detroit. This week, as automakers made their case for a $25 billion bail-out, one could not help but think that this was [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2008, 7:28am EST
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  • Service

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    Bracing for meals… Yesterday, my brother-in-law, Ted, dropped off a few boxes of old family photos. They are selling their house in the Hamptons, and these old family mementos have been stored there for years. Pawing through the archives, I came upon a photo of my old man at the Citadel, in South [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2008, 8:07am EST
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  • A Silver Lining

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    cotton….. Sometimes, in the destruction of one industry lies the seeds of another one. But it is not easy to see. In 1852, the discovery of domestic sources of oil spelled the death knell of the whaling business.  In New Bedford, the Dubai of the 19th Century, the foundation of their entire economy [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2008, 8:55am EST
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  • Tune Into C-Span Sunday Night 8PM, 11PM

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    November 16, 2008 Michael Rosenblum CEO, Rosenblum Associates BIO: More about Michael Rosenblum Program Details Watch Sunday, November 16, 2008, on C-SPAN at 8pm/11pm ET Info: Our guest is Michael Rosenblum of Rosenblum Associates. Mr. Rosenblum believes that television is at a crossroads and that the dominance of the major television networks is dying. [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2008, 10:34am EST
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  • The Academy - DC

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    Yesterday, fresh from the flight from London (and what a terrible airport Dulles is), we kicked off the DC training academy.  Forty more asipring Videojournalists started the four-day intensive course in video literacy and prepared to join the digital revolution.        [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 7:37am EST
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  • Open Letter to a Newspaper Editor

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    Gimme a second… On Monday, I gave a speech to the Society of Editors in the UK. At the end of the speech, we opened the floor to questions, and I was asked by Doug Melloy, the editor of the Rotherham Advertiser if he should put video on his website. It’s a small [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2008, 4:38am EST
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  • Society of Editors 08: Michael Rosenblum | Online Journalism Blog

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    part 2 of the speech Second half of speech to UK Society of Editors on the future of video online.  Thanks to Paul Bradshaw for recording an posting this. more about “Society of Editors 08: Michael Rosenb…“, posted with vodpod        [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 2:22am EST
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  • Society of Editors 08: Michael Rosenblum | Online Journalism Blog

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    Part 1 of my speech yesterday to the UK Society of Editors in Bristol, England. more about “Society of Editors 08: Michael Rosenb…“, posted with vodpod        [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 2:19am EST
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  • From The Guardian

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    Speaking yesterday at the Society of Editors Conference in Bristol, England, I was interviewed by Jemima Kiss, their digital correspondent. Using a $129 ‘flip’ camera, she shot and uploaded it almost immediately. Sure beats the time and expense of using a ‘crew’. The Guardian has been one of the more aggressive [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2008, 5:38am EST
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  • Fast News

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    Hit the road… Before there was an information superhighway, there was a cement superhighway. The analogies between the Internet and the Interstate are quite interesting. Both were built by the Department of Defense. One to move missiles, the other to protect command and control Both were networks Both led to vast changes in the nation, [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2008, 5:43am EST
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  • Nothing Lasts Forever

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    Beautiful on the outside..sick on the inside… In 1975, when I was 21, I bought a Triumph TR6. British racing green. Brown leather seats.  A straight-6 with dual stromberg carbs. What a car. What a piece of junk. You could not drive that thing more than 20 miles without something falling off.  The Lucas electrical [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2008, 4:17am EST
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  • Thar She Blows…..

    Today’s killer is tomorrow’s endangered species… The flight from Los Angeles to Brussels is endless, so it gave me plenty of time to read Snowball,Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder. The book is much more than just the life of Buffett (which is plenty in and of itself), [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2008, 5:09am EST
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  • Brussels - March 4-5th, 2009

    Come on in… We are here in the Rosenblum Institute in Brussels to firm up the agenda for DNA2009. We have moved the conference to the Plaza Hotel in downtown Brussels, which has a nice, old world feel to it.  Lots of marble, heavy red velvet, gold leaf and royal crests.  It’s [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2008, 6:45am EST
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  • Obama Wins!

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    In Brussels. Watching CNN since 1 AM when polls closed in US. 5 AM. Obama wins! Going to bed.        [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 5:16am EST
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  • Darwinian Journalism

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    An evolving medium In the Autumn of 1836, The Beagle, a British ship on a 4-year voyage around the world dropped anchor in the Galapagos Islands, off Ecuador.  The ship would stay for a month. Aboard was a young naturalist, Charles Darwin. What Darwin found on The Galapagos would forever change the world.  [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 6:39pm EST
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  • Travel Channel Academy Santa Barbara

    It is hard to believe that four days have gone by so quickly. But the results were great, and everyone learned a lot. There are now forty new certified Travel Channel Academy Journalists, and as VP Sue Norton explained this afternoon, they will soon be producing for the Travel Channel’s website and [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2008, 6:08pm EST
    by rosenblumtv

  • The BBC, Hyperlocal News and VJs

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    The following comes to me from Alan Morrison in New Zealand - a very loyal correspondent. In 2005 we built 5 hyperlocal news nodes for the BBC in and around Birmingham, England as a test pilot. Each node was manned by 5 VJs, and that was all.  The pilot worked quite [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2008, 9:22pm EDT
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  • TCA West Coast

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    Posted: October 31, 2008, 6:55pm EDT
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  • Travel Channel Academy - Santa Barbara

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    This morning, after a very pleasant flight on Virgin America (!), we arrived in Santa Barbara to start the Travel Channel Academy in Santa Barbara. Forty new students began the experience of a lifetime.  The new Mrs. Rosenblum leads them through their paces. We’ll keep track of their progress over the next [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 12:39pm EDT
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  • Briefly….

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    Jeff Jarvis gave us each 5 minutes to explain our businesses. 5 minutes??!! OK. Talk fast….        [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2008, 11:36pm EDT
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  • Avon Calling

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    Back to basics… Today’s NY Times ran a very interesting article about Joel Moss Levison, a 28-year old college drop out who has made more than $200,000 in prizes entering his own online digital commericals in contests. As the Times headlines it “Finding a Gold Mine in Digital Ditties” But I think it [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2008, 1:19pm EDT
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  • What Is A Newspaper?

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    All the news that’s fit to print…. or other stuff also? In 1452 when Johannes Gutenberg first laid paper on inked movable type, he printed a bible. He printed a bible because that was the only kind of book he, or anyone else for that matter, had ever experienced. Hence, it came [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2008, 7:49am EDT
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  • My Day With Jeff Jarvis…

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    …and a lot of other people… I am sure we can find some way to work together…. Yesterday, I spent the entire day with Jeff Jarvis and about 200 of his closest friends. It was the second annual New Business Models for News Summit at CUNY. A gathering of some of the biggest [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2008, 10:49am EDT
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  • The One Percent Solution

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    Time is money…. Yesterday’s posting of the Star Ledger desert murder piece caused a lot of interest and a lot of discussion. As I noted, I don’t think the piece is perfect. Far from it. I sent extensive notes over to the paper on ways in which they could have done it [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 8:26am EDT
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  • A Mystery in the Desert

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    The Star Ledger is very much alive. Having resolved their union issues, the paper is back in business, and fortunately the video project is remaining a main focus. Above, a 13-minute documentary on the disappearance of New Jersey woman in Nevada. Produced by Star Ledger VJ John Munson working with reporter Kathleen O’Brien, [...]
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    Posted: October 22, 2008, 8:28am EDT
    by rosenblumtv

  • The Wizard of Omaha

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    You have to invest… I am reading The Snowball, the official Warren Buffett biography by Alice Schroeder. Buffett is some smart and impressive guy. Starting with nothing, in Omaha, Nebraska, he is now the wealthiest person in the US, if not in the world.  It was all done by good stock picking and [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2008, 9:40am EDT
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  • Here’s The Point

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    Listen! Prior to the invention of the printing press in 1452 there was almost no punctuation in the English language. There was no need for it.  The langauge was a spoken language, as were all languages, and when it was written down, it was written as a transcription of speaking. A spoken language [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 10:03pm EDT
    by rosenblumtv

  • What You Don’t Get To See

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    As I have often mentioned, we spend our time split between Europe and the US. As a result, we get the interesting insight of seeing the same event as viewed by two totally different media machines. While we in the US like to believe we have a free press, the spectrum of [...]
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    Posted: October 17, 2008, 9:42am EDT
    by rosenblumtv

  • The Local Wars

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    All news is local….. In 2004, on the heels of 5 years with the BBC, we started on a second project. Hyperlocal news. The test base was Birmingham, England, and we built 5 ‘hyperlocal news pods” in 5 Birmingham regions. Each was staffed with 6 videojournalists. The idea was that they would produce extremely [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 10:08am EDT
    by rosenblumtv
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