I’m only going to surf my favorite update-heavy websites in the first 10 minutes of every hour. These sites include, but aren’t limited to: Twitter, Live Journal, Flickr, Facebook, Google Reader, and Tumblr.

I’m also turning off all email notifications, and any Twitter desktop notification apps I have.

The point of the media diet is to reclaim my brain. Especially my daytime working brain. The overload of update-heavy input has me switching sites every 5 minutes in order to see if anything new is posted. It’s like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, and will never end.

Much better to reclaim my brain and miss a few updates or links here and there.

I’ll try this out this week and see how well it works.