Consumption Journal: Week Three

My media consumption for Week Three, since Monday 1/19, consisted of television (broadcast/cable), movies, newspapers, Internet (computer), radio, and cds. This past week I watched various shows on broadcast television including news programs (ABC, NBC), The Office, and Everybody Loves Raymond. In addition I watched numerous programs on cable television. I viewed Saving Private Ryan on DVD and saw Notorious at the movie theatre. 

I also continued to read the Tribune's Red Eye each morning in addition to gathering my news from various websites including AOL and Yahoo; I also used such sites as Facebook, Wikipedia, and Pandora. However, compared to the past few weeks recorded for this blog, I did not use my computer as frequently. I was commuting back and forth to the city so I was listening to a couple radio stations, but mostly cds in my car. 

I do not own an iPod so I find myself still dependent on my cds I have collected over the years. I have large booklets full of them and never had the desire to buy an iPod (I feel as though I'm the only one who hasn't). I'm listening to music so frequently that when I leave my apartment to walk, its the only time I don't have it on (since I always have music on in my place). However, it seems like people are so dependent on iPods for their walking that if they don't have it with them then it would be like awkward silence. 

There were MP3 players well before the iPod, and even large capacity ones (but they were the size of a paperback book). The iPod came out in 2001 and had the largest capacity per unit size of any device out there. The iPod is consistently changing its design with such versions as the Mini and Shuffle. It seems there is nothing that even comes close in terms of unit sales. I am interested to see what the future of iPods will be (their design and capabilities). 

I'm sure I will eventually pick one up, but at the moment I'm fine with my cds. However, it doesn't seem too far off when cds will be obsolete and a cd player will be an antique (although I think it is already). Call me crazy but I still enjoy going to the store to buy an actual album with a booklet and case instead of some file on a computer.