I'm a big consumer of media and content online.
I don't read much of anything online.
Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.
I always ask the question: As more Africans are going online, are they finding content that is meaningful and relevant to them, or are they just consuming from everywhere else. As Africans, we have the capacity to generate our own content.
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
In Los Angeles, sometimes it's hard to find a magazine stand, let alone one that has the magazine that you want. So I find that the longer I live in L.A., the more digitally I consume.
I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.
The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV.
I spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time on the Web.
At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.
What teens share online is dwarfed by what they consume. Pre-Internet, you had to hoof it to the grocery store to find a magazine with celebrity bodies - or at least filch your mother's copy from the bathroom. Now the pictures are as endless as they are available.
I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
Twitter was designed to be this system that you just scan for information that's important or useful to you and then walk away, and if you wanna take a break you take a break.
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
I think the Internet just makes it a lot easier to consume content and I think people are giving more respect to the people that are on it, which I think is really important.
I've done a pretty good job of curating a Twitter feed that doesn't make me hate the world.
Everyone who uses their phone on a day to day basis just be careful with how much you're consuming because it can get unhealthy quickly.
For me, even with my Twitter and Facebook, I'm not on it all the time. I don't Twitter every day.
I don't actually go on the Internet that much.
I'm much more willing to buy a novel electronically by someone I don't know. Because if halfway through I think, I don't really like this, I can just stop. I can't throw books out, even if I think they're crummy. I feel like I've got to give it to the library. I've got to loan it to somebody, or I keep it on my shelf. It's like a plant.
I could spend several hours on YouTube every night. It's all there. I just don't have enough time.
We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.
The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.
I'm perfectly fine with the fact that lots of young folks are wanting to watch anime and read manga. I'm perfectly happy that they are doing things online, reading there as opposed to traditional print magazines.
