Talk about an interesting 48 hours. NO TV’s in my partners’ house, what is the world coming to. Not weird, but certainly different for me at least. I watch around three to four hours daily. More than anything CNN or CNBC and on Tuesdays for some twisted unexplainable reason, LOST. I was however pretty lucky in the sense that I didn’t have to deviate too far from what I’m used-to. I didn’t fall far from the tree. A primary source of information that we shared was the mighty WEB, not to say that it is where we go to find information, but more so where information is hurled at us. Part of the experience was to go to the website to read a magazine instead of reading it in line at the grocery check-out. “Clean-up on isle 9”. In honor of my partner, who listens to a lot of mp3’s, I opened an account with Pandora Radio an online website that play the music you like based on artists, genre, and style. I even downloaded the app to my Blackberry.
I spent more time on the on the web than normal, surfing and fighting my way through all the crap advertisements. “Click here to know your credit score”, “Earn $950.00 from your home computer”, “Most popular celebrity pics”. Go away!!!!!! Watching TV is so much easier, change channels until you find something you like or catches your attention, and when a commercial comes on just change the channel. Not like the web where it’s up to you to search for what you like. Don’t get me wrong it has it advantages but damn, it feels as if the intension is to grab your attention and pull you in another direction. Luckily since there wasn’t a big difference between or our schedules, I didn’t feel the impact some of my peers did. My perception of how people gather info certainly has changed however. Gathering, analyzing, and making use of information, including information about the natural environment is presented to us via all mediums from TV to a Starbucks cup. Useful or not, that’s up to what you value.
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