My healthy media diet ...
I pay attention to a great deal of information on the Internet but as this blog has shown I've been starting to focus and narrow the scope of my information intake or what some would call my "media diet". I do NOT own a television and the only time I really watch TV is when I go to bars to watch basketball or the occasional baseball game. I must admit I do miss watching things like major tennis tournaments from start to finish, C-Span, and original HBO programming. However NO television is good television in my opinion. I do spend a lot of time listening to public radio and using the Internet audio and visual resources for entertainment as well as information.
The past few weeks I've been devoted to refining my approach to the Internet and making productive use of my time while online. My daily online routine is to log on to Gmail. I check personal messages, pay attention to Google Alerts, browse news and info from various subscription services, and then respond or write any pertinent messages. After checking Gmail I move on to the days news by visiting the New York Times site and the BBC World News site. As the nature of my work involves financial news I then will visit at least the home pages of Yahoo Finance, Business Week, and Fortune.
Another way of staying current with the zeitgeist of the Internet and the currents in the blogosphere is to log onto Twitter and FriendFeed. Both of these services have been quite awesome ways of connecting and sharing with others who share my interests in technology, media, communications, law and education. I've also just discovered a great web application called Snackr that I have used to supplement my Google Reader feeds. I now feel as if I am getting the concept of information overload under control and hope to use the information I am gathering and interacting with for progress and prosperity.
I am going to use this space of my blog to outline my media diet and I hope to stick it to with a good deal of exactitude over the next few months and keep information overload at bay.
News - New York Times, BBC News, Original Signal, Latino USA
Financial News - Yahoo Finance, Business Week, Fortune, Venture Beat, Marketplace
Technology -Silicon Valley Insider, All Things D, MIT Technology Review, Ars Technica
Education/Libraries - Library Journal Academic Newswire, The Wired Campus (Chronicle of Higher Education)
Media/Commnications/Internet and Society - Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Stanford Center for Internet and Society, Read Write Web, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Advertising Age, On the Media, Paid Content
Law - Denise Howell, Tim Wu, Lawrence Lessig, John Palfrey, Wendy Seltzer
