Portion control

Over saturation has yielded a new trend in culture: the mini. Just as fun as tapas, mini-cupcakes, wine flights vs. bottles so are more digestible media portions.
Lately the trend towards the pre-curated and the small seems to have multiplied.

• Check out the mini email newsletter, growing in popularity: The very short list
• NYT points out how well the short story is doing on digital devices, especially when authors offer up very affordable pieces one at a time.
• Or why not get an email with a short story?

When you are overwhelmed with work and there is everything to do, you actually tend to try and take on less by procrastinating. Therefore the natural human reaction to a glut of new media choices  - and literally the full breadth of the classics of the world at our fingertips -  has had readers running for  smaller controlled media. We filter the news we read, whose Facebook updates we get and don't always click through past a headline or synopsis. What other ways to you cope with media overload? Is it a good or bad trend in media consumption?