The Information Diet

Blogs

The information in The Information Diet isn’t new. It’s been talked about for years by lots of amazing writers and experts. Here are just a few places online that are discussing healthy information consumption habits and the role media plays in that equation.

About the Brain

Jonah Lehrer’s Frontal Cortex

Selected posts:

• The Importance of Mind Wandering
• Why Do Some People Learn Faster
• The Science of Irrationality

Deric Bownds’ Mindblog

Selected Posts:

• Why We Laugh
• How Our Attention Can be Hijacked
• Mindstuff: A Guide for the Curious User

re:Cognition

Selected Posts:

• One Divided Brain
• When Memory Starts Working
• What The Internet Is (or Isn’t) Doing to Our Brains

About the Media

MediaGazer

Techmeme’s news aggregator about the media

BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis

Selected Posts:

• But is it Journalism
• Readers are our Regulators
• To rally, perchance to dream

Knight Blog

Eric Newton’s stuff is particularly good on the Knight Foundation Blog:

• Where is Press Freedom Headed
• Let’s get it right with real names in 2012
• Would nutrition labels work for news

MIT Center for Civic Media

• Newsboards in Calcutta
• Is Participation Exploitation
• What if we had a nutrion label for the news

Note: It’s depressing that this list contains such little diversity. Please, if there’s more to add here, consider adding those resources