Social media can get pretty complicated. I have a relatively small social media presence – the links/icons in the sidebar at left, plus Flickr – but at times I’ve forgotten how each of my pages or sites are connected.

Take, for example, the video blog below, which I uploaded to Youtube yesterday and intended to post here today. A few hours after the video was on Youtube I received a message from my sister on Facebook saying she had watched it. I had forgotten that I had a feed from Youtube to Facebook, and it probably cost ianhillmedia.com a few pageviews.

It’s something I’ll keep in mind in the future. Perhaps I need to create a flowchart mapping out the connections between my social media pages.

This video by Amani Channel has its issues – he spends the first 50 seconds or so reciting his resume – but it also sends a clear, important message: The user has to come first in today’s news business.

At this point it’s obviously ironic and frustrating for Ian music fans that MTV continues to honor music videos with an awards show even though it no longer airs videos.

Nos. 6-1 of Ian Hill’s top 11 music videos.