Some things I used to do

Within the last five years:

I used to read the Chicago Tribune first thing every morning and that's how I got all my news until 10pm.  Now I skim 4-5 different news aggregation services all day long, on my laptop, on my iPhone.  If an elevator door doesn't open immediately, I have probably checked the news.

I used to go to the comics page of that same newspaper and check out Dilbert every day.  Now I go to Dilbert.com once or twice a month and catch up.

I used to watch television shows when they were on and arranged my schedule around them.  Then I got TiVo and what night shows were on didn't matter so much. 

Now I wait until I have heard consistent, positive input about a show from a variety of friends and then get DVD's from Netflix and catch up on whole seasons in a couple days.

Kind of an interesting study in time-shifting.  Some things went from daily to minute to minute.  Others went from daily to bi-monthly.  And some of my "new" favorite television shows are in their 3rd or 4th season or even canceled.

I wonder what this list will look like in five more years?

Comments

[william renzulli]

How true this is. My own daily routing mirrors yours in many ways. Having only watched the last 2 episode of Boston Legal, we are now into the second season via Netflix.

I miss the daily Dilbert!