I know it’s still in prototype, but has anyone else tried The New York Times‘ new Article Skimmer? Now this is how we should be reading the news!

There’s no question about it, those of us in DMEC are social media fanatics. We blog, we tweet, we post videos to YouTube, we collaborate on wikis, we share every bit of minutiae about our lives on Facebook and other social networking sites.

So why has this blog not been updated for so long?

Frankly, as much as we love social media, it’s hard to keep up! We’re inundated these days with so many outlets to express ourselves, and it seems as if every club, class, organization, employer, or other group of people with even the slightest connection wants to go online in a social way. (How many blogs have you been invited into?)

And that’s a good thing. The more we connect, share, and collaborate as a society — a global society — the more we understand each other and the more progress we can make together. We just need to find time for it!

Or, as The New York Times reports, we can just find someone else with the time to do it for us:

Britney Spears recently advertised for someone to help, among other things, create content for Twitter and Facebook. Kanye West recently told New York magazine that he has hired two people to update his blog. “It’s just like how a designer would work,” he said.

It is not only celebrities who are forced to look to a team to produce real-time commentary on daily activities; politicians like Ron Paul have assigned staff members to create Twitter posts and Facebook personas. Candidate Barack Obama, as well as President Obama, has a social-networking team to keep his Twitter feed tweeting.

The famous, of course, have turned to ghostwriters for autobiographies and other acts of self-aggrandizement. But the idea of having someone else write continual updates of one’s daily life seems slightly absurd.

Ah, outsourcing one’s online social life — now why didn’t I think of that?!

We are pleased to announce we have confirmed the date of the next >play conference – October 17, 2009.  We are working hard to secure sponsors, keynotes, panelists and exhibitors in order to bring >play to the next level in 2009.  Be sure to save the date!

Hello and welcome to the DMEC blog,

My name is Mohsin and I am part of the DMEC ‘09 leadership team. We have set out this year to continue the awesome initiatives our predecessors took in establishing and advancing DMEC. Our mission is to evolve DMEC into the definitive resource for members when it comes to the digital media and entertainment industry. The executive committee, under the very able leadership of Co-presidents Monica and Max, are super excited to be part of this evolution. Check out the DMEC’09 officers here.  

Let the blogging begin ! Go Bears !