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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.
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.
agents.www.media.mit.edu/people/pattie/CACM-94/CACM-94.p1.html
- 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.
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.
www.nbps.k12.wi.us/district/StaffDev/Workshops/Searching/deep_thinking_and_deep_reading_in_an_age_of_infoglut.htm
- 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.
www1.sjmercury.com/archives/acm97/stories/gell-mann0305.htm
- eCFO - Fighting Information Overload - Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
www.cfo.com/article/1,5309,5839|||6,00.html
- 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.
www.ericacve.org/docs/mr00009.htm
- 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.
computer.org/conferen/proceed/spire/8664/86640065abs.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 overload.
www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml
- Information Overload Could Make Voters Tune Out - Will information technology ultimately help or hurt democracy?
www.freedomforum.org/technology/1999/1/22noam.asp
- Information Overload: Fighting data asphyxiation is difficult but possible - By William Van Winkle from Computer Bits magazine.
www.computerbits.com/archive/1998/0200/infoload.html
- Informing Ourselves to Death - A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
www.eff.org/pub/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.
www.infoworld.com/articles/ca/xml/00/01/10/000110caoverload.xml
- Managing Information: Infoglut - New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
www.iweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm
- New Age Heralds End of Information Overload - Evolutionary model shows worst is yet to come for Eastern Europe.
www.reuters.com/aboutreuters/newsreleases/1998/out_abys.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.
about.reuters.com/investormedia/news_releases/art_7-12-1998_id232.asp
- 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.
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).
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.
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.
www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html
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