As the months have gone by, I’ve been check out a slew of social media services. I unknowingly started using google docs more and more until I’ve reached the point where I use it almost exclusively. I also was able to get on Google Wave’s preview! While it’s pretty bare bones at the moment, it’s fun to toy with.

I’ve also been planning on uploading my earlier short films to Vimeo but the drive they’re on doesn’t want to talk to my mac. Talks to Ubuntu just fine, but the is read only… Still working out that particular problem.

I finished some online viral promo’s which I’ll be uploading fairly shortly. This was for a local improv show and I’m pleased with the way they ended up, I’ll keep you informed of that.

Back to social media, I’m still not sure how many of these services I’ll continue to use. Right now I have them all updating at the same time. Twitter has my largest following by far, so I’m keeping that one for sure.

One other thing going on is I’m on a big productivity kick. Cleaned up my home office and my work desk, it feels damn fantastic to finally clean those suckers up! In the process I simplified them, tossed a bunch of uneeded crap and reorganized. I highly recommend this to everyone.

As I restructure my life, I’d like to get into blogging more. I’m a pretty passive online kinda guy but the reality is that if I want to move forward as an independant director, I’m going to need serious backing from somewhere. And couple of fans I guess.

photo credit: vramak

Yesterday was a wake-up call for me.  I did absolutely nothing but surf the internet.  I have several projects I could have been working on or gone to see friends or done something productive but instead, 10am to 1am was spent almost entirely infront of the computer.  There was only 1 productive thing I did:

The dishes.

I’ll backtrack for a second to explain the title, I have what my friends jokingly call ADD-OCD.  Basically, what interests me jumps all over the place but once I clamp onto the next thing I get obsessive about it to the exclusion of all else… including eating.  Yesterday I barely bothered to eat aside from breakfast and some tortilla chips and sunflower seeds and that kind of scared me this morning.

So, effective immediately, I’m going on Timothy Ferris‘ Low-Information diet from The 4-Hour Work Week.  What is the low-info diet?  You basically cut out as many sources of information as possible for one week.  No news, no tv, no fiction books, no internet, no rss, no excessive email but you are allowed 1 hour of this stuff per day but that’s it.

It may seem excessive but I never seem to have time for anything really of my own.