My Media Consumption Diet

Henriette tagged me on the My Media Consumption Diet meme and since I’ve been wanting to write about this I’ll take the opportunity and explain what am I using and why.

Web
The Web is from where I get most of the news. I go direct to a couple of websites like SAPO (generic Portuguese news), Publico (Portuguese reference newspaper) and BBC News (international news) and then search for browser the news there. But I mostly use Bloglines to follow around 175 feeds (I filter to the ones I’m really interested) and then eventually I go to news sites, blogs, flickr or wherever posts take me.

In terms of tools I’ve been using Firefox on a Powerbook for the last 3 years.

Radio
I’m a big fan of radio. I listen to music through it most of the time. Since I’ve bought my last car (a year ago) I haven’t played a CD on the car radio, only radio.

TV
No TV at home since March 2005. I stopped watching TV and it was one of the most rewarding decisions I have made. I now have more free time then ever and I’ve gotten used to just have silence at home which has increased my concentration levels.

While I agree that TV is dumb and TV TurnOff Week is a good idea in itself, I do not try to make others follow this. It suites my life style and that’s it.

Movies
One of my favorite movies is Los Lunes al Sol and I think this shows what kind of movies I like to watch. I have around 20 DVDs at home and no DVD player (why do I need one if I don’t carry a TV ?).

I’m a 24 and Prison Break fan. I usually watch them using either on the powerbook or on a mac mini and a 19” screen.

Communication
Email, IM and mobile phone make most of my work day. As a phone I’ve been using a Sony Ericsson which is pretty user friendly.

At home I have an ADSL line and wi-fi which I use to access the Web and to Skype with the part of the family that lives in Europe and with some of my (world) friends.

Twitter (which is being pretty hyped around these days) is just not a tool I see fit to use now. Maybe in a different version I’ll find more value in it.

Magazines
Oh boy. I have more magazines at home than space to store them. I really like to keep updated using either summary or in-depth magazine articles. I frequently buy magazines in several fields. Some of them are a must have every edition: Harvard Business Review, Blue Wine, Revista de Vinhos, Living etc and Everyday food. Other magazines I buy depending on the articles on a specific edition. These include The Economist, Businessweek, Dwell, The Guardian Monthly, GEO, Psychologies, Time, Fast Company, Business 2.0, I.D., Wired, Linux Journal, .net, Decanter and maybe some more that I can’t remember now.

I (strangely) know when a magazine is supposed to come out and I regularly check the news agent around those days.

Books
I read around 10 books a year mostly on business and some on the web. I have been wanting to start diversifying my choice by doing some reading on art and psychology. I have a hard time reading books outside of travel time.

Newspapers
Whenever I travel abroad I buy newspapers from those countries. It truly helps me get into what happening there and get their view of the world. For example, I was in London for a week I frequently bought the Guardian.

In Portugal I buy around 1 or 2 newspapers per week. Usually Publico or Diario de Noticias. Sometimes I buy the weekly Expresso newspapers but lately it has been turned into advertizing with contextual news. Something that is getting common.

I’m tagging Hugo Silva, João Pereira, Nuno Barreto and Nicole because I’m curious of what media consumption diet do they follow.

Update: I forgot to add Play. I have a Wii which, by changing the way games are played, has been able to make me want to play again. It’s also a clever device in the sense that through the Wii News Channel I’m able to browse news articles.

February 28, 2007 | Tags: ,  

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