One of the things that has happened in the past few years is that magazines have crept back into my life. At one point I had cancelled all subscriptions except one. Yet when I looked around last weekend, I found seven different magazines in my to-read pile. I can't keep up with this many magazines, which is why I have a to-read pile. Clearly this has gotten out of hand. I need to add print media to my media diet.

They're all over the place on the web: give us your email address, and we'll send you a great free something and a newsletter. I know this, and I do it myself. It also happens in paper: give a charitable organization some money, and suddenly you are getting a paper newsletter or magazine. But what happens when you realize that you are inundated?

As I recently wrote, I have been working to pare down how much information I have coming into my life. I was taking in so much and it was becoming less and less valuable as I struggled to keep up with everything coming at me. So I have gone on a media diet. I have been paring online information intake. Today's article will show you how I got my online sources purged and to a reasonable level.

I have so much information thrown at me every day, yet I feel like I learn little. I had gone on a media fast a few years ago, but honestly, things have crept back up there. I started to check the news frequently, parse dozens of blogs and websites, read all sorts of magazines, just because I was afraid I would miss something. I was deep in information overload.