The Information Diet

The Information Diet is a book about something that doesn't quite constitute such length. Johnson talks about how, in the information age, we must now learn how to shape our information consumption the same way we shape our food intake. With world of open information comes a decrease of credibility, and higher manipulation of ‘truth' (a la non-organic foods, slave labour).

In essence I love the concept but I'm not sure whether or not it's something I'm going to practice (in regards to his proposed information diet methodology). This could be for a range of things, but I'm putting my money on the fact/s a) my current reading habits aren't that bad, and b) after studying information and technology for the last 6 years, and now working full-time in the industry, I have confidence in what I'm reading, and how to tell whether or something isn't of a high standard when it comes to gathering knowledge.

I also wasn't the biggest fan of the American politics commentary throughout the book. Admittedly yes - the man use to work for Blue State Digital (the people behind Obama's 2008 and 2012 political campaigns) but I wasn't expecting the volume of references.