Akatombo Web Log
Monday, November 28, 2005
Input Overload
I’ve come to the conclusion recently that I take in too much stuff. Through RSS, podcasts, television news, video games, Internet surfing, and the constant feeling of need to research more information on whatever it is I’m currently working on; I’ve been leaving myself with way too little time to think and create for myself. Since I’ll be working on something very soon that will require me to be as creative and “all there” as possible, I need to wean myself down from this daily onslaught. I’ve decided to go this week without tv (not a problem), a maximum of a half hour of rss feed browsing per day, podcasts when I’m riding my bike (one earbud in, one ear clear) to the office and back, no video games except on weekends (this is pretty standard for me lately anyway), and no more than 3 minutes away from my project for research at a time unless it is something I need to find out, and not just something I want to know. How do you keep your media consumption down? Do you find that it helps you to output more or better?
- Posted by Andrew Shuttleworth
The only way is to cut my internet connection and close my e-mail app
Which reminds me. Why I am surfing your site when I have work to do ....
Will get back to it as soon as I’ve subscribed to your RSS feed
What platform are you using for yoru blog?
April 10th, 2006 10:56 PM - Posted by UltraBob
Hi Andrew,
Thanks for the comment. I’ve been falling down a little bit lately on limiting my input, and was just thinking about that and renewing my comittment tonight so it was quite a coincidence that you commented.
As for the platform, I use Expression Engine which gives a pretty nice feature set, pretty good spam protection, and a lot of nice features, like comment reply notification. Akatombo Media uses Expression Engine quite a bit for client work too because it provides really good flexiblity with excellent ease of use for content creators. By the way, have you got a domain/website for that new business of yours yet? If you need some help with it, please keep Akatombo Media in mind. We may even be able to do some bartering, who knows.
April 10th, 2006 11:16 PM