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Topic: Reference / Knowledge Management / Information Overload

Subtopics of "Information Overload"

Effects     Email Overload     Hypertext

Knowledge Discovery     Personal Organization     Relevance Filtering

Speed Reading     Time Management

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Agents (Artificial Intelligence)

Web pages on "Information Overload":

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

Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload
Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs125a/content/agentsmaes.doc

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

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.fno.org/mar97/deep.html

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

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

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/

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
http://www.ericacve.org/docs/mr00009.htm

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 over
http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml

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

Informing Ourselves to Death
A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
http://www.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper

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.html

Managing information
Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
http://www.managing-information.org.uk/

Managing Information: Infoglut
New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
http://www.informationweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm

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 ar
http://about.reuters.com/investormedia/news_releases/art_7-12-1998_id232.asp

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

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

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

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

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

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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