Ged’s tagged me with a new meme – My Week in Media – taken from Seventy Seven PR’s Media Watch blog where, now and again, the company’s staff detail what they’ve read, watched, listened to or surfed over the past week. Or, in some instances, over the past month. Ged’s already noted down his week in media and asked me, along with a others, to detail our past week’s media consumption.
It’s a bit tricky differentiating what I’ve ‘read’ from what I’ve ’surfed’ because I generally read 90 percent of content online. So for the purpose of this exercise I’m going to class everything hardcopy as what I’ve ‘read’ and the media I’ve read online as what I’ve ’surfed’.
What I’ve read
I’m currently reading Michael Palin’s New Europe which was given as a Christmas present. The book is taken from the BBC series of the same name where Palin, of Monty Python fame, travels around 20 countries in Eastern Europe. Something that wasn’t possible prior to the fall of the Iron Curtain.
A few months ago I signed up for a free trial of financial magazine, Money Week. Thing is, the free trial expired long ago and I now pay for it because I added my bank details upon sign up. Why anyone in my position reads an investor magazine is beyond me but the content’s pretty good and I consider it one of the de facto publications that has an understanding what’s going on in the credit markets. And for a previously-wannabe-homeowner like myself I generally take their advice on the housing market as gospel and what they have to say about the current financial/housing markets isn’t pretty. Recession anyone?
What I’ve watched
I’m not a massive TV watcher so this section is a little light but I have been finding the Austin Stevens Snakemaster programmes on Channel 5 good. I’d never heard of Stevens prior but the man is fearless of snakes. Any kind of snake. His Wikipedia entry is here and here’s a video on YouTube of him being bitten by a cobra.
What I’ve listened to
For entertainment purposes I like listening to the Chris Moyles Breakfast Show in the morning. The man is funny. You can’t beat a bit of northern wit.
I’ve also rediscovered podcasts and in the past week have just subscribed to a number of them (generally from mainstream media publications) via iTunes. These are The Economist, The Future of Business from the Times Online, Media Talk from the Media Guardian, Forbes.com’s Notes on the News and Reuters’ Breaking News: Europe.
What I’ve surfed
Phew! Where do I start? Excluding the 150+ blogs I read, the new RSS feeds I’ve recently subscribed to and have read are: The Moscow Times, CNN Europe, Time Top World Stories, New York Times homepage and The Japan Times. My New Year’s resolution is to try to have an awareness of what’s going on globally. How long they stay in my RSS reader remains to be seen but I’m enjoying reading them so far. Particularly the Moscow Times.
No, seriously, I am.
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James Gordon-MacIntosh
Hej Stephen, thanks for the mention.
Interesting to note – and will be even more interesting to see whether it holds true of others – that bloggers don’t really appear to watch a great deal of TV – beyond the appointment-to-view stuff.
Wonder if this will hold true for other digi-philes – so far, it seems that DVDs and long-standing drama series are about the only thing that occupy the attention. Time will tell, I guess …
Melanie Seasons
As I have said countless times before, you have some serious issues with your music collection (or lack thereof), but it’s not too late, I can help! For this year, check out The Arcade Fires “Neon Bible”, The National’s “Boxer”, Radiohead’s “In Rainbows”, The Shins’ “Wincing the Night Away”
I could go on, but it’s best you start with these first. Together we can overcome your affliction!
Stephen
See, I’m a man whose musical tastes cover many different genres, meaning you can’t stereotype me into one category. Dance, Indie, Rock, New Wave, Hip Hop, R n B etc etc
I’ve seen your, ahem, ‘iPod music collection’ and it’s alright… if self-harm floats your boat, that is.
Sally Whittle
You may think those new-fangled bloggers don’t watch much TV, but Charles Arthur has a full round-up review of the Christmas telly that’s worth a read…
Personally, until wireless broadband is able to beam telly from my hard drive to my TV without needing an electronics degree, I’m not cancelling my Sky+ subscription.
Stephen
As I received the email notification from your comment, Sally, I had just finished reading your latest blog post.
Now that’s spooky.
Sally Whittle
That’s like some weird kinda blogosphere synchronicity!
(and thanks for reading the blog, hope you are finding it worthy)
Ty
interesting read, certainly makes you think about the different things we see and hear from person to person.