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Internet Use Experiment

One of the advantages of having a lot of unstructured free time is that I have more leeway to try things out and see what happens.

This week, I will use the internet for no more than thirty minutes a day. This is use it or lose it, and must be continuous (i.e. I can’t do six five-minute intervals). I can use the computer otherwise, but my wireless card is off at all times.

I actually started this yesterday (and went a bit over trying to take care of some things before going offline). Initial results: I can definitely sense a bit of an addiction. Also: it’s unclear whether I should use my half hour in the beginning or end of the day. I originally planned on waiting until the end of day today, but had to look something up online.

Update 2/27: This was a stupid idea, I’m cutting the experiment short. I’m far too dependent upon online references to be able to get things done. Kind of sad.

This entry was written by fil and posted on Feb 26, 2007 at 10:39am and filed under Informavore. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

6 Comments

  1. tlianza

    My experiment is to litter your comments section with profanities knowing they won’t be removed for at least 24 hours.

    FUCK!

    Posted Feb 26, 2007 at 4:00pm | Permalink
  2. Chris

    Is it inclusive of job work? If so, that’s impressive.

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 at 9:05am | Permalink
  3. fil

    Tom — You’re 100% pure class.

    Chris — It was, which is why I had to quit (even though I was only doing personal projects this week)

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 at 10:53am | Permalink
  4. vincent

    hilarious

    Posted Feb 27, 2007 at 12:34pm | Permalink
  5. ank

    What about SMS? or your mobile phone in general?

    are you cutting back on all technology, or specifically ones that have “direct access” to the net using conventional means? Web browser, plugged into the wall somewhere?

    Ankur

    Posted Mar 11, 2007 at 12:05am | Permalink
  6. veji

    So what happened? Did you cut it altogether or at least refine it? We all know you could have changed it up a bit to keep the essence there.

    Posted Mar 19, 2007 at 2:41am | Permalink

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