I’m really curious about what you guys think of this proposed Media Diet .
Balance Your Media Diet
– July 19, 2009
I’m really curious about what you guys think of this proposed Media Diet .
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Nine hours is a diet?
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By “diet” I think they mean total daily intake, not restricted intake as in trying to lose weight by dieting.
But still … 9 hours … wow. When is the poor sot supposed to have a life?
9 hours seems ridiculously high. Sure, most Americans may be glued to a screen that long, but a lot of that time is probably being in front of a screen at work (and presumably working). Unless your work is related to the media, PR, etc, none of those allotted nine hours would apply to that screen time. Nine hours just seems unhealthy. I like how you get a full 3 hours of entertainment, whereas other activities like the news and blogging which conceivably require more thought get less time. If that pyramid is actually meant to be like the food pyramid in that its a healthy diet, I have to say they probably fail.
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@NickO – If I read it right, WIRED was recommending this nine-hour breakdown as a healthy alternative to how it believes most people consume media. Kind of playing off the Food Pyramid recommended diet they gave us as children. So I don’t think they were just talking about total intake (though that’s a possible reading), but more trying to illustrate a healthy total intake.
In other news: I have a hard time imagining spending 45 minutes per day on Twitter. How does that happen? Even if you’re interested in Twitter, they’re only 140 characters; they don’t take that long to read.
In other other news: Jason Lee has apparently given up acting in Kevin Smith movies and turned his creativity toward illustrating a techmedia-obsessed lifestyle.
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