On Saturday I read a book review in a printed journal. On Monday I ordered the book, and I am eagerly anticipating its arrival in the post in the next few days. Of course I could have instantly read a summary of the book's contents on the web, and gone back to watching twitter updates. But I'm getting more out of it this way, and I shall make some time when the book arrives to sit down and really read it.
Appropriately to my mind, the book in question is Jaron Lanier's "You Are Not a Gadget" (Amazon link not supplied). And really reading it seems like something one should do with a book. Like food (http://www.slowfood.org.uk/Cms/Page/home), information sometimes needs to be digested.
Apart from that, I've given up TechCrunch for Lent. Too much babble about too many new services and things that I really don't need. At the end of a working day I feel a lot happier having focused for a few hours and built something than if I've spent the day keeping on top of all the information.
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