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.
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
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
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
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
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 about.reuters.com/../news_releases/art_7-12-1998_id232.asp
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
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 th www.ericacve.org/docs/mr00009.htm
Scholarly article with definitions, statistics, problems and processes, trends, suggestions, conclusions, and references for further reading. info.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html
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.] www.nytimes.com/2003/10/16/technology/circuits/16mine.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. www.fno.org/mar97/deep.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. csdl.computer.org/../../spire/1998/8664/00/86640065abs.htm
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. www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_11/hermans/index.html
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