21st Century Media

Well, we're still developing this site and have decided to use my current production as our test.  We welcome your interest and feedback.

This entry goes more under the heading of life today.  I was sitting on my balcony watching the sunset with two friends.  One is a journalism professor and the other a producer migrating to the Internet.  I hadn't seen my producer friend for longer than I like but had told her, perhaps warned her, that my professor friend had become enamored with Twitter.  Now I am on Twitter and Facebook and find myself watching video on the web more and more.   But my friend has trouble keeping his hands off the iphone.  Maybe I am insecure, but I end up feeling like he'd rather spend time in cyberspace with people he's never met face to face than to  be present and have contact, like eye contact, for an evening.  I am not a Luddite or a purist.  I pick up my cell for some business calls while having lunch, and text.   But  at what point does our media consumption become an obsession?  This Harvard study report is curious too: 

http://gawker.com/5275897/science-confirms-twitter-dominated-by-self+obs...

How do you get our social needs met?  What is most satisfying and why?  What makes you feel isolated or connected?