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Xeni Jardin at 3:31 pm Tue, Sep 8, 2009

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The Hierarchy Of Digital Distractions: levels of digital activity, visualized. (by David McCandless, via Scott Beale)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • cycle23

    Phew. Good thing I bought an Instinct.

  • Anonymous

    Along the same lines, here’s a chart of boredom vs the reading of webcomics: http://www.notquitewrong.com/rosscottinc/2009/08/19/the-system-264/

  • Daemon

    It’s true. I should be working right now, and instead I’m about to make fun of people who use iPhones.

    Done.

  • Evil Jim

    To me it just looks like an ad for I-Phone desperately trying to go viral.

  • hadlock

    List of requirements (or at least, list of don’ts) for great memes:

    1. Does not require a legend at the bottom to explain itself
    2. Includes humor
    3. Prints well on a standard, crappy work B&W laser printer
    4. Consumes no more than 1/4 of a standard sheet of paper when printed
    5. Does not use color gradients (see #3)

    Otherwise, pretty spot on.

  • Anonymous

    why isn’t reddit.com on there?!

  • dr.hypercube

    Requires recursion: entry for ‘spots insta-meme on the Boing’.

  • Anonymous

    So, are we talking Digital Distractions or Balanced Social Media Diet http://tinyurl.com/kwla7f? Great graphics, but all this should do/should not do pyramid business is leaving me feeling conned/fused.

  • Anonymous

    Missing TV Tropes ruins this.

  • franko

    no mention of online videogames?