Information Overload
Hope you’ve all recovered from the Xmas excesses… Just in time for some New Year excesses!!
Talking of excesses, this post is about the excess amount of information that we have to watch, listen to and read these days… There is just so much good stuff out there that it can become overwhelming.
We had a good Xmas here, my main present was a 30GB Video iPod and very nice it is too, but it has got me thinking…. Just when are we supposed to find time to watch, listen to and read all the information we can store these days? Earlier in the year we got a Hard Drive video recorder with built in dual freeview tuners. It is great, probably one of the most useful gadgets we have bought. It allowed us to watch one freeview channel and record another, the recording process is as simple as it gets (I never used to use the VCR but use this all the time), and watching things you have recorded from the ‘library’ is easy too. So, although we delete things once we have watched them, the 80GB hard drive that we thought was huge is now nearly full… We just haven’t had time to sit down and watch all the things we have recorded.
The video iPod could be the same. OK it holds my music collection which is one thing, but podcasts and video podcast are free and there are loads of them out there to subscribe to. If you have an interest to a niche subject then there is probably a podcast about it. I have already subscribed to a surf video podcast and a windsurf one, along with a couple of podcasts about website design. All of which make interesting viewing / listening. These podcasts have new articles released on a regular basis, but will I get the time to actually listen to them or will they simply gradually fill up my 30GB of space on my iPod?
We’ll have to wait and see, but a few extra hours each day just to keep up with the information overload would be lovely.
