Disposing of the digital chaff:
Article by Murray Gell-Mann. With the digital age producing an
"immense sea of data that threatens to drown humanity," people need
to adapt how they think so that true knowledge can be distilled from
the deluge.
http://www1.sjmercury.com/archives/acm97/stories/gell-mann0305.htm
Managing information:
Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually
needed.
http://www.managing-information.org.uk/
Information Overload Annotated Webliography:
Information Overload is a unique problem. Information tends to be
everywhere and we have problems even to remember where we put it,
much less what it is. Here is a small collection of links to
increase your information overload about information overload.
http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml
Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects:
Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers,
educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the
changes in their domain.
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CHINNEG.html
New Age Heralds End of Information Overload:
Evolutionary model shows worst is yet to come for Eastern Europe.
http://www.reuters.com/aboutreuters/newsreleases/1998/out_abys.html
Spinning Around:
Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend,
it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning
Herald]
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515705.html
Information Overload - An IR problem?:
An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String
Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium. A
downloadable copy of the entire study is available in .PDF format.
http://computer.org/conferen/proceed/spire/8664/86640065abs.htm
Informing Ourselves to Death:
A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
http://www.eff.org/pub/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper
A Few Thoughts on Cognitive Overload:
This article by David Kirsh, which appeared in Intellectica,
distinguishes supply related overload from demand side overload and
how environments must be designed to minimize overload's negative
consequences.
http://icl-server.ucsd.edu/~kirsh/Articles/Overload/published.html
The Register - Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce:
Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they
get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/23/25283.html
New Age Heralds End of Information Overload:
Reuters, the global information and news group, has published
international research revealing pronounced differences in the way
that nationalities around the world are coping with the information
age. The research shows that while some countries are now leaving
the age of information overload behind them, others at much earlier
points on the evolutionary curve are only just entering it.
http://about.reuters.com/investormedia/news_releases/art_7-12-1998_id232.asp
Managing Information: Infoglut:
New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
http://www.iweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm
The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload:
This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study
of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a
large international organisation. (Acrobat File).
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/research/PAPER200.pdf
Information Management:
Information Overload. Info-glut. Infobog. Data Smog. As information
proliferates so do the labels for this malaise of the "Information
Age." In this half-century, for the first time in history, the
capacity for producing information is far greater than the human
capacity to process it.
http://www.ericacve.org/docs/mr00009.htm
Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage,
Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer:
Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning,
research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms.
Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate
this new information landscape.
http://www.nbps.k12.wi.us/district/StaffDev/Workshops/Searching/deep_thinking_and_deep_reading_in_an_age_of_infoglut.htm
eCFO - Fighting Information Overload:
Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most
useful data.
http://www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,5839|||6,00.html
Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload:
Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions
to problems of actively managing information.
http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/people/pattie/CACM-94/CACM-94.p1.html
Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload:
Although technology is causing information overload, it can also
offer ways to combat it.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ca/xml/00/01/10/000110caoverload.xml
Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch:
Looks at a number of solutions, including "agency," agent-like
applications, improvements in the information chain and information
brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the
online marketplace. By Bjorn Hermans.
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue3_11/hermans/index.html
