| Managing information - Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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.
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| Information Overload: Fighting data asphyxiation is difficult but possible - By William Van Winkle from Computer Bits magazine.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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| eCFO - Fighting Information Overload - Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
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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.
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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.
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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.]
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| How Much Information? - Attempts to measure how much information is produced in the world each year by looking at media and other variables. Produced by the School of Information Management Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. Charts and graphs that show comparisions with various forms of knowledge whether digital or print, books vs. magazines, and on PC's vs Enterprise databanks. A participative ongoing study that welcomes input.
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| Informing Ourselves to Death - A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
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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.
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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.
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| Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload - Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it.
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| Managing Information: Infoglut - New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
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