Impressive. You must have a whole process that comes out of this. Would love to learn more. - Alex Williams

Yep, I do the same for the most part. Need to pay yourself first :) - Michael Gartenberg

Michael, I hope you blog about how you manage your time. - Jeremiah Owyang

Michael and Jeremiah, that sounds right: Here's my social media consumption workflow: http://tinyurl.com/5l3m32 I'm usually working on this for an hour in the morning before opening the work e-mail. - Louis Gray

how much would you guys guesstimate you spend on keeping up throughout the day? - Deva Hazarika

I tend to blog at night for about an hour, and during coffee breaks - getting a post done in an hour is quite a discipline - Broadstuff from Alert Thingy

I like the idea of having a defined workflow for media consumption. I need to sit down and try this myself. My big problem is too many RSS feeds. I blame Scoble. :) - ha3rvey (doink doink)

"budget time like money." I started thinking that way awhile back as well. (Well, most of the time.) Made a huge difference to my time mgmt. - Phil Crissman

Deva, keep up with FriendFeed? I refresh once every 15 minutes or so; more often if I think about it and I have the free time. It's a good way to break my brain away from whatever I'm doing for a a minute or so. I don't force a FF interruption if I'm really busy or need to focus but the tab gets refreshed often enough. - Akiva Moskovitz

@Deva, it's about breaking it into chunks. I'd say about 10 minutes of each hour catching up on RSS, Twitter, FriendFeed, and keeping the laptop when I get home to casually get the rest. - Louis Gray

I do pretty much the same thing first thing in the morning - Sally Church from Alert Thingy

@Louis i assume that means keeping it closed for the other 50 minutes, not checking for a minute once every six minutes? interruptions and context-switching required are the biggest productivity killers - Deva Hazarika

Aside from the up-front effort and the casual availability in the evening, it can vary. Like anyone's work schedule, hours can get chewed up in meetings, with zero access to that stuff, but at other times, I can be working on something in Outlook, Word, etc. and still have a Google Reader or FriendFeed tab open in the browser. I'm not arguing in favor of continuous partial attention, but instead in favor of continuous parallel attention. (and yes, I made that term up and intend to trademark it...) - Louis Gray

@louis looking good: No results found for "continuous parallel attention". I'm both skeptical and fascinated. Think you might be interested in doing a talk on that to top academics in information/communication/attention and big corporate researchers and CIOs at some point? - Deva Hazarika

Louis Gray, sir, you are a genius. 'Continuous Parallel Attention'. Absolute genius. - Akiva Moskovitz

Continuous Parallel Attention: My New Reality http://tinyurl.com/6s3cy6 - Louis Gray

wow blog for 2 hours?!?! - Daryl Tay