Clay Johnson on information consumption

On the podcast this week, Clay Johnson, co-founder of Blue State Digital and former director of Sunlight Labs at the Sunlight Foundation, discusses his new book, The Information Diet. According to Johnson, America's diet of mass-produced unhealthy food has resulted in an obesity epidemic and we may be seeing the same thing when it comes to our media diet. He believes the problem is not too much information, rather it is the quality of information that people choose to consume. Johnson encourages more responsibility in choosing information intake, similar to what is required to make healthy food choices. He ends by outlining a plan of action and offers tips on consuming "healthy" information.

Related Links

"The Information Diet", by Johnson"How to Start Your Information Diet", lifehacker.com'Plug In Better': A Manifesto, The Atlantic

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