I was on a conference call with Eric Rice last night and reading feeds, and listening to Chris Pirillo’s live streaming and refreshing my Twitter page.  As you can tell, my media consumption is evolving into something that would make Orwell happy about "Big Brother".  I have given "multitasking" a new definition, and my ADD has been fed like that flower in Little Shop Of Horrors.

Earlier in the day, I was meeting with my bookkeeper to go over the books for the last month and preparing for the next month, and I was listening to Jeremiah Owyang’s live feed through Ustream.tv, chatting with Robert Scoble, Jeremiah and others on the IRC chatroom under the stream, while talking on the phone with my mother, reading RSS feeds, chatting via Skype with my partner Tris about client issues, and emailing with my accountant as to how I would have to drive an hour North to sign my business tax return to get it on the mail.  The television I just had to have when we bought our new home, was sitting silent and cold in the other room.  I had a new mistress now and had traded her in for a new model.  Again, to some in my industry, this is another day at the office, yet for others, this is the equivalent of information overload that would cause a stroke in most normal humans.

My consumption of the media is changing as fast as the technology that drives it.  I am watching, reading, hearing, and providing news in ways that 10 years ago that would have never crossed my mind.  I had watched a white Bronco on 3 different channels in an airport, had watched Bernie Shaw describe the events that unfolded in the Gulf War, and other media hyped news events, but nothing like this.  I wonder as I sit and gather information about the shootings at Virginia Tech, how I will see the news in another 10 years.  The evolution of my media consumption might even have a new look in 6 months. 

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