Reporting the media I consume

I have been ramping up my microposting. I am on a new mission to actually acknowledge the media I am constantly consuming. I am always reading, listening, watching, always in greedy, earnest pursuit of entertainment and/or education, always fascinated by both the craft and its result. My goal for now is threefold: (1) log all of it (I have a spreadsheet, of course), (2) Tweet much of it (almost anything that made any kind of an impression on me), and (3) blog some of it (the most interesting and entertaining, of course).

It’s a lot! Honestly it feels like even just the logging is surprisingly hard to keep up with. But if I have the time to consume the stuff, I should take the time to acknowledge it too. I especially want to give credit where due: if I am enjoying and learning things from other content producers, shouldn’t I be telling my own audience about that? Which is exactly what I hope other people will do for my content? Yes, I should!

And, of course, if part of my goal is education and self-improvement, then actually processing what I’ve consumed — doing something, anything with the information — is also an important step. Like chewing my food more thoroughly, instead of wolfing it down.