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Two things trouble me about social media. The first is that everyone I read or connect to via Twitter or Facebook or whatever, seems to be having a much more exciting life than me. It's a world of gallery openings, launches, great nights out or simply wonderful sunny, lazy days untroubled by personal dramas or upheavals.

Not that I'm jealous of course. Well actually of course it's because I'm jealous. I even get invited to some of the same events that my friends and colleagues go to I just never seem to get round to going to them - either through a lack of willing babysitters or, more likely, a general acceptance that I'm a long way from being renaissance man. A beer and night in front of the telly are usually all the cultural activity I can muster after a day at work.

Hi, I'm Nick and for the past 12 months I've been occupying the strange twilight zone that exists between traditional TV and the worldwide web.

Having begun my career in television development, churning out daft ideas for TV shows on a daily basis, a year ago I landed a job in the New Media department of a TV Production company and suddenly found myself catapulted headlong into the middle of a digital revolution. Broadcast television and the web are colliding and intertwining like never before and, as a New Media producer, I guess it's my job to try and weld the two bits together as seamlessly as possible.

The thing is that's easier said than done.