I know this is a ‘no duh’ for most people but I had an epiphany about the way I think about content “consumption”.

We don’t consume content. In fact every interaction with every piece of online content only serves to create more content.

Every click, every rating, share, new link, comment, new blog post, etc, just creates more content. More 0’s & 1’s on a database more records.

This is why data is expanding exponentially. And as the data expands exponentially that creates more interactions resulting in more content resulting in more……you get the idea.

There’s actually a scientific term for this and it’s called a Wicked problem. Search is a Wicked problem. Social media is a Wicked(er) problem.

I imagine that social media measurement and search provide a level of complexity that made search in the late 90’s look like child’s play.

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Hi, my name’s Tac and I’m a social media addict.

My Work Space

I actually come from a long line a family with addictions. I’ve just found a much more socially acceptable addictions and turned it into a profession.

How do I know I’m an addict?

I am always online. Always.

I wake up at 3:00 am to check both work and personal email, Twitter and FriendFeed.

I often respond coherently and occasionally don’t remember exactly what I said when I wake up.

I dream in status updates.

I have 2 phones, 3 computers, a Flip camera an iPod and I use them all frequently.

RT @tacanderson: I am always online. Always.

Anything that happens to me I think of how I can blog or tweet it.

If I create content of any kind I wonder how I can repurpose it for a blog.

I can tell you how to publish across a dozen different sites simultaneously but I’m 2 weeks behind on submitting my hours at work. [Update I am now caught up on my timesheets]

The real problem is that it’s because of this addiction that I have the job that I do. This constant obsession feeds the knowledge that I have. It’s that knowledge that leads to a certain degree of expertise. That is what I get paid for.

RT @tacanderson: I dream in status updates.

Part of me wonders if this is really a problem. As long as I stay a high functioning addict is that ok?

The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. But what if you don’t want to recover?

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“If you have your own news-related question that you’d like to see answered by an AP reporter or editor, send it to[email protected], with “Ask AP” in the subject line. And please include your full name and hometown so they can be published with your question”

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It’s amazing how well the last sentence of this quote applies to bloggers.

When Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam died, media stars everywhere commemorated his death as though he were one of them — as though they do what he did — even though he had nothing but bottomless, intense disdain for everything they do.  As he put it in a 2005 speech to students at the Columbia School of Journalism:  ”the better you do your job, often going against conventional mores, the less popular you are likely to be . . . . By and large, the more famous you are, the less of a journalist you are.”

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I’ve mentiond before that my Emma has a smartphone (a Palm Centro - it was BOGO when we got my wife the same phone). She doesn’t have a data plan but she download pics and vids to her HP Mini.

I never taught her how to use her phone like this. She picked up video all on her own.

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These are the things I spend most of my days thinking about lately. I think they’re going to be the 3 big drivers of change in business and society over the next 5-10 years.

- Citizen and Corporate Journalism.
I don’t think current news corporations can fill the need society and companies need. I think they need to fill that gap themselves.

- What is Social CRM and what should it do?
I really don’t think that juxtaposing a Twitter feed next to CRM data makes a Social CRM.

- DRM, Creative Commons and Open Source.
This weeks Amazon fiasco highlights the problems I have with DRM. I find the business models of all three of these and the problems they create endlessly interesting.

What about you, what are your big 3?

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Walter Cronkite: 1916-2009

Cronkite was the last person you can point to as universally trusted. He represented everything the Media was supposed to be.

R.I.P

via PaidContent

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I had a great 2 days with our Studio D team. It made me realize that for all the people struggling with the Marketing/PR shifts you need to first focus on what you do. Then figure out how to do that with the new tools not how do you do your *job*. Then figure out how you scale that across the globe

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