Media Habits
This probably of interest only to myself, but I have noticed my media consumption habits have changed over the last year. I used to read lots of blogs and online articles, and ebooks.I found that for getting cutting-edge information on programming and technology, digital written content struck the right balance between timely delivery and technical depth. For the past several months now, I find myself reading more paper books and watching technical videos on YouTube, and my digital reading has kind of dropped off a cliff. I still review my RSS feeds on a regular basis, and I capture blogs and articles of interest, but I don’t go back to read them all that often.
I know that I stopped buying ebooks when O’Reilly stopped selling DRM-free ebooks in favor of subscriptions for their online learning platform. I also know that prefer the paper book reading experience over reading books electronically. However I’m not sure what is driving my sudden reluctance to read digital blogs and articles and the rise of watching videos. I doubt this is anything of importance, and I doubt I’ll spend a lot of time thinking about it, but it is something I noticed about myself.
