I learned from kottke.org that someone has blogged 24 hours of watching MTV.

I'd be impressed except I've already read Hugh Gallagher's "Seven Days and Seven Nights Alone with MTV" from Douglas Rushkhoff's Gen X Reader (1994). 

Compare and contrast:

6/21/2001 02:59:49 PM
Chris Connelly on MTV News, and it turns out that Destiny's Child is gonna record a Christmas album! Hope they don't wuss out and make it all boring ballads: if there's any pop microgenre that needs a major formal ass-kick, it'd be the slow jam.
Michael Daddino (e-mail) (link)

Wednesday, December 30, 1992 4:10 A.M. 
An unsettling "MTV News" interview with U2 has been in rotation today. The band does not appear in flesh but chats down to Kurt Loder from four enormous TV screens. Projecting the measurements of their head size, if Bono and friends were released from the TVs, they could King Kong through Times Square, singing "One" as they toppled buildings and crushed fistfuls of screaming citizens. They loom magnificent over Kurt the mortal - pathetic in his need to urinate, his desire for a ham sandwich.
That's what happens after heavy enough rotation on MTV: You shed your body and become a spirit in the videodrome.
Hugh Gallagher, Seven Days and Seven Nights Alone with MTV

(Oh whatever happened to Hugh Gallagher? He was the Malcom Gladwell of his day - his "college entrance essay" was reprinted in Harper's ; he was a Sassy "One to Watch", he wrote for Dirt, Rolling Stone (which was turned into a movie), WIRED, Flash Art and Playboy, he made an album... I hope his novel was worth this absence from the magazine scene)

And while watching 7 days worth of MTV is an impressive feat, in 1992 Bill McKibben spent 24 hours alone with Mother Nature. Then he watched more than 1700 hours of television (24 hours of each available channel from his cable company) for comparison. Then he wrote The Age of Missing Information.

Now that's impressive.