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As the world enters the Knowledge Age, information on virtually every aspect of our lives and businesses is becoming available at an increasing rate. When the availability of information outstrips the time and energy of those who could potentially use it, frustration can result. This condition is often referred to as information overload or infoglut. Left unresolved, this can lead to inefficiency at best, job burnout at worst.

Subcategories

• Effects
• Email Overload
• Hypertext
• Knowledge Discovery
• Personal Organization
• Relevance Filtering
• Speed Reading
• Time Management

Resources in This Category

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• eCFO - Fighting Information Overload

  http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3002204
  Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.

• 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.]

• Information Overload - An IR problem?

  http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/spire/1998/8664/00/86640065-abs.html
  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.

• Information Overload Annotated Webliography

  http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml
  A collection of links about Information Overload.

• Informing Ourselves to Death

  http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper
  A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.

• Managing information

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

• NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom

  http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE5DD173EF935A25753C1A9659C8B63
  Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents.

• 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]

• 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.

• The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload

  http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=653682
  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.

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