What’s in your media graph? September 3, 2008
Lately with Taylor around, I’ve been reading the New York Times in the mornings, which has been nice, especially the Business and Arts sections. I usually then turn to the laptop and pick up what’s going on in the Technology world through the likes of TechMeme, TechCrunch and HackerNews, from time to time taking a peak at CNN or BBC for world news. Then there are the influential blogs that I have to catch up on, 37Signals (Signal vs. Noise) or How to Split and Atom to name a couple.
Then I pick up what’s going on in my social graph (if there’s time), because let’s face it – much of the news and information we get comes from our friends and people who we interact with. Much of the interesting news I hear about, at least in world news comes from a conversation with a friend or co-worker.
All of this information that we consume on a daily basis is what I like to call our ‘media graph’ – the media that we consume everyday. As opposed to our social graphs, or those individuals that we’re connected to, our media graph contains those publications and works that (along with our friends) shape our opinions, conversations and a lot of how we act.
Because the information that we consume everyday is so important, I am constantly trying to find new portals and opinions out there. For me, it’s as simple as not wanting a huge company like NBC or CNN or FOX telling me what is important from their angles – shaping my ideas and opinions.
So how is your media graph put together? Could you benefit from finding new and interesting sources of information so drive you to think more analytically and challenge some of the ways you are “set in your ways”? I know I could.
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It’s funny because I think my ‘media graph’ as it were changes so often that it’s hard for me to pinpoint how I put it together.
Lately I have been day tripping through Friendfeed if only because it lets me cheat. Instead of having to find interesting sources of information for myself, I let other clever people do it for me.
The really interesting question to me is for those of us who do not spend way too much time on the web, how do they construct their graph.
Good post mate and thanks for the mention.
Yeah, I wonder about those folks (the non-web-junkies) too. Perhaps they just watch a lot of TV…which can’t be all that interesting. I also think that FriendFeed won’t be too useful to these folks, as there aren’t many of their contacts sharing on the service to begin with.
Thanks for the comment Steve, really like your blog too BTW.