Last little while has been insane!  Got 2 films in post right now, one has to make a crazy deadline the other I’ve been dragging my heels on it.  I also got a paid gig on a commercial piece as an assistant director, looks like my star is rising or something.

Still loads of stuff to be worked out but I’m trying to keep new projects to a minimum as I’m still playing catch-up with the stuff on my slate. While I’m getting things done, my productivity keeps slipping farther and farther behind in some projects so I’m trying to stop new projects from happening.  That said, 2 new projects have appeared out of thin air.  I guess it’s the kind of scenario some people hope for.

Twitter , Facebook, Blogs, IMs, YouTube, Flickr, LinkedIn, Yelp, it’s a truckload of information on me on the net as well as a truckload of great places for social interaction but the problem is this: it’s still a truckload.

There’s gotta be a better way.

I recently started taking FriendFeed seriously and glad that I did.  It’s my favourite social media platform and allows me to discover and discuss various topics in realtime.  I haven’t really been using it to it’s full potential to aggregate all of my networks into one place nor have I really gone and fine tuned all of my social platforms and this has caused at least one problem.  I keep forgetting whether I have accounts at some of these places.

The other thing is that while Facebook has an image gallery section, Flickr does it better.  FriendFeed is better at having conversations than Twitter, but Twitter has way more activity.  These duplication of services kill me, and I don’t want one place to do everything because if it does everything, it generally does it badly.  Web-apps that are focused are way better at doing that one thing than an app that does several. Yes, I’m looking at you Facebook.

I also detest the clutter that accumulates as some of these web-apps grow (again, Facebook, I see you there).  I want to have clean interfaces and focused content for each app while still having somewhere to aggregate all of it. And so, the great social media consolidation officially begins.

I’m in the process of cleaning up my website, so bare with me here as I update the thing.

Google Wave has announced that come September 30th, regular people like me and you will be able to open an account.  Well, 100,000 of us anyway.

This reminds me of an interesting article that I read at the Candler blog called Google Wave for Filmmakers.  Basically, applying the idea of Google Wave to filmmaking where you have a hub from which everyone can work from.  Whether anyone takes this idea and runs with it or not will be up in the air (I’m very tempted to develop it, but don’t have the time or resources at the moment) for some time to come.

Still, as a production tool, Google Wave is dynamite and I can’t wait to get my hands on it.  Here’s hoping I’m one of the 100,000.

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.