I ignored Marty’s last tagging, so I’m posting on this one, might be considered rude to ignore twice. The meme is Media Consumption.
Web:
- Email: Gmail for personel stuff, Outlook for work. Gmail is a killer applicaiton, Outlook is an obsese oversized elephant.
- RSS: RSS is great, I’m really happy with Google Reader. It’s doesn’t do comments which is fine by me, as I don’t have time to read all the posts let alone comments. My biggest problem with RSS is that I can’t keep up, so many great blogs, so little time. I can’t bear to ‘mark all as read’, what if I miss a really important discussion.
- Websites: The only websites I bother to browser to are news aggrigators like digg and slashdot and SMH. And Tangler of course.
TV: I literally just sold my trusty of 68cm Sony TV not 30 minutes ago. Mario was purchasing it for his grand daughter for the princely sum of 25 dollars, seems there is no market for over sized cathode ray tubes. My “traditional” television consuption is limit late evening news and lateline, for my political fix of the day. I will probably watch a television series a month, prefer to consume series in large chunks, a couple of episodes in the session. I mostly watch TV on my laptop, sitting up in bed or at my desk minimsied in the corner working on other task.
Books: I consume a couple of books a month, being a public transport guy. Always non fiction, ‘life is too short for fiction’ is my line. I source my books from friends, colleagues and wife and occationally choose a book for myself, piggy backing my wifes incomming semi trailer of books for Amazon. It’s going to be some time, before any device can replace the humble book, they are going to have to reproduce the spell before I switch.
Print: I subsribed to the economist for a coupe of years, it’s a mind expanding read, some really boring article on fiscal policy and some amazing article in the technology quarter. The problem I find with something like the economist is that I feel really bad when I don’t read every article, so to save me the frustration I stop subscribing. Yes I’m 100 perecent serious, is this a recognised condidtion? Strangely enough I often enjoying reading the local paper, keeps me in contact with the local community. I will read the newspaper occaionally on the weekend over some bacon and eggs.
Podcasts: Podcasts are great, will often download them to my iPod and listen on the communte. My big complaint with podcasts is that I want them to be as easy as RSS. Drives me nuts transfering them to the iPod tracking which which podcast I have listened to. It has become so painful that my podcast consumption has wained.
Radio: Alan Jones 2GB over muesli and yoghurt, this is one of my favourite parts of the day.
Movies: Bram Cohen + laptop.
