Knowledge: information overload
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- Managing information
http://www.managing-information.org.uk/ - Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
- Information Overload Annotated Webliography
http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml - 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.
- We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html - Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.
- Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CHINNEG.html - Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.
- Spinning Around
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515705.html - Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
- New Age Heralds End of Information Overload
http://about.reuters.com/investormedia/news_releases/art_7-12-1998_id232.asp - 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.
- The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/research/PAPER200.pdf - 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).
- eCFO - Fighting Information Overload
http://www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,5839|||6,00.html - Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
- NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/technology/circuits/16mine.html - Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize, or analyze large numbers of documents. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]
- How Much Information
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/ - An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
- Informing Ourselves to Death
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper - A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
- Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer
http://www.fno.org/mar97/deep.html - 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.
- Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs125a/content/agentsmaes.doc - Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
- Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ca/xml/00/01/10/000110caoverload.html - Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it.
- Managing Information: Infoglut
http://www.informationweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm - New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
- Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_11/hermans/index.html - 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.
- Information Overload - An IR problem?
http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proce... - 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.
- The Register - Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/15/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.
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