HOWTO: Balance Your Media Diet

Here's my contribution to Wired's August issue. Titled "Behave Yourself," the cover package features all kinds of netiquette tips and advice for 21st-century living.

Oh, and I should probably mention Brad Pitt is on the cover, wearing a Bluetooth headset.

illustration for Wired by Jason Lee

24 Comments

echolocate chocolate

#1 – 5:16 PM July 15, 2009

Gaming is not entertainment? I think you're playing the wrong games.

SeppTB

#2 – 5:24 PM July 15, 2009

I tend to do 3 or 4 of those at once. How does that factor in on the pyramid? I get 9 hours done in well less than 9 hours!

Plus I'd agree with Echolocate, 1 hour of games vs 1 hour of watching YouTube? I'll take the games! Interesting take on the food pyamid though, but I never liked that either.

Steven Leckart

#3 – 6:14 PM July 15, 2009

Indeed, there's a one-size-fits all thing going on. Consider this a baseline. If you want to substitute more meat for potatoes, go ahead!

killdeer

#4 – 6:36 PM July 15, 2009

So you contributed the 4 sentences? Seems like Jason Lee did the brunt of the work... unless you told him what to draw? even so, shout outs to Jason Lee

Guy

#5 – 7:09 PM July 15, 2009

methinks your pyramid is inverted. but I'd expect that from a news guy.

Anonymous Anonymous

#6 – 8:17 PM July 15, 2009

I will never understand twitter, let alone the idea that at this point you could be figured as spending nearly as much time reading random thoughts as, say, playing Civ IV.

SamSam

#7 – 8:34 PM July 15, 2009

Oh my God. So, do you or anyone you know actually have a job (that doesn't just involve consuming media)?

How can one possibly justify 9 hours a day of what you yourself refer to as "intake." When do you ever produce anything? What happened to making?

I see the article says that Americans spend on average 9 hours in front of a screen, but I'm sure a very large percentage of that is actually at work, doing or creating. Here you turn us all in to vegetable consumers of someone else's media.

[Or am I missing a fundamental joke here?]

nezro

#8 – 9:21 PM July 15, 2009

I was thinking the same thing. Does anyone actually have 9 hours a day to do these things?

feedingfashionistas

#9 – 11:00 PM July 15, 2009

I certainly sit in front of a (rassle-fracking) screen for 10-12 hours per day, but I'd feel pretty awful if it ever strayed away from at least 60% "making". On a workday, I typically do:

4-8 hours writing/editing
2-6 hours music production
1-2 hours listening to podcasts
.5 hours internet-based TV/videos
8 hours intermittent web/blog/news surfing
(many of these coincide, of course)

I'm thinking Steven was posing these 9 hours as happening within the average computer-bound tech-obsessed worker's day, concurrent with work and play. (as that is Wired's demo, for the most part)

tyen

#10 – 11:19 PM July 15, 2009

I thought that Wired looked quite out of place next to NYT and WSJ, but the text below about who paid for it clarified that oddity. :)

Anonymous Anonymous

#11 – 11:46 PM July 15, 2009

The math doesn't work for me. How can you Twit for 45 minutes when you done nothing all day but screw off on teh Internets?

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