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A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper
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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://www.computer.org/proceedings/spire/8664/86640065abs.htm
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Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload
Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it.
http://archive.infoworld.com/articles/ca/xml/00/01/10/000110caoverload.xml
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How Much Information
An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results
are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/
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NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom
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.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/technology/circuits/16mine.html
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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
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We Have the Information You Want, But Getting It Will Cost You: Being Held Hostage by Information Overload
Scholarly article with definitions, statistics, problems and processes, trends, suggestions,
conclusions, and references for further reading.
http://info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html
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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
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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
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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_....
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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
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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
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Managing Information: Infoglut
New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
http://www.iweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm
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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
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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
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Information Overload: Fighting data asphyxiation is difficult but possible
By William Van Winkle from Computer Bits magazine.
http://www.computerbits.com/archive/1998/0200/infoload.html
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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
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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
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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
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We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload
Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying
Accuracy.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html
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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
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Managing information
Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
http://www.managing-information.org.uk/
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