Another plea for the media diet

We live in a stuff-a-lanche, says this Guardian columnist:

Every day we humans gleefully churn out yet more books and films and TV shows and videogames and websites and magazine articles and blog posts and emails and text messages, all of it hanging around, competing for attention. Without leaving my seat I can access virtually any piece of music ever recorded, download any film ever made, order any book ever written. And the end result is that I hardly experience any of it. It's too much. I've had it with choice. It makes my head spin.

Here's what I want: I want to be told what to read, watch and listen to. I want my hands tied. I want a cultural diet.

Very well put... and exactly why I devoted a chapter of my book to the media diet. Someone send that man a copy of Bit Literacy!

There's only contradiction I'd offer. It's up to each of us, individually, to say no to all the media choice out there. No one is going to do it for you. Solving information overload is a personal choice. It's free, and fairly easy, and doesn't require any extra software or other tools - it just requires learning a few simple skills, and committing to solving the problem.

(Thanks to Matt Shannon for the pointer)

• Oct 5, 2009
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