Reference - Knowledge Management - Information Overload 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. 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. 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. 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. New Age Heralds End of Information Overload - Evolutionary model shows worst is yet to come for Eastern Europe. Information Overload Could Make Voters Tune Out - Will information technology ultimately help or hurt democracy? 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. Informing Ourselves to Death - A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society. 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. Information Overload: Fighting data asphyxiation is difficult but possible - By William Van Winkle from Computer Bits magazine. 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. 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. Managing Information: Infoglut - New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley. 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). 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. 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. Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload - Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information. Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload - Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it. 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. EMail Management Benchmarking Association (EMMBA) - An association of e-mail management professionals that conduct studies to identify the practices that improve the overall operations of the members. Email 911: Mastering Email Management - Techniques and resources to help users overcome email overload. Congress Online Project -- E-mail Overload in Congress: Managing a Communications Crisis - Growing numbers of citizens are frustrated by what they perceive to be Congress' lack of responsiveness to e-mail. At the same time, Congress is frustrated by what it perceives to be e-citizens' lack of understanding of how Congress works and the constraints under which it must operate. Report summarizes problems and possible solutions related to this issue. PDF format also available. Tips for Overcoming Email Overload - Summary of actions to take to reduce and/or manage sent and received emails. Controlling Listserv Overload - Keeping listserv traffic orderly and useful for everyone, especially when the number of messages per day is great. vnunet.com - Coping With Email Overload - Spam happens, says David Ludlow. Shorewalker.com - "See the Destruction of Email Messaging from the Comfort of Your Home!!!" - Spam and other commercial messages are throttling email's simple appeal. Taming the E-mail Shrew - Mitch Betts and Tim Ouellette. According to E-mail experts, unless message-swamped workers learn to manage their E-mail with daily discipline and filtering technologies, they will suffer lower productivity and higher stress. OutlookTips.com - Contains a summary of the latest Microsoft Outlook knowledgebase articles and has a sign up for a weekly newsletter with tips for all users of Microsoft Outlook ranging from Outlook Express through Outlook 2002. Data smog: newest culprit in brain drain - By Bridget Murray. Psychologists are beginning to study the impact that information overload is having on our lives. APA Monitor. Dying for Information? - A Report on the Effects of Information Overload in the UK and Worldwide, by Paul Waddington, Coalition for Networked Information. Information overload - a risk factor in the information society - By Salla Toppinen & Raija Kalimo. The development of information technology usually changes the work contents and the organization of work, and thereby affects also the well-being of the users. Työterveiset - Special Issue 1996. Experts: Information onslaught bad for your health - By CNN Correspondent Kathy Nellis. There's so much data out there that it's making some people physically ill, according to some experts. Psychologists even have a name for the malady: Information Fatigue Syndrome. Warning: Too much info hazardous to your health - The gift of boundless information is causing a new kind of stress, and our primitive mechanisms for coping are being overwhelmed by an insidious condition known alternately as "technostress," "information overload" or "Information Fatigue Syndrome." Information Overload Distracts Drivers - Article summarizing the results of research about drivers handling information while driving. High-Tech Cars Could Bring Overload - In electronic simulations of driving a vehicle full of high-tech gadgetry, a number of drivers miss their turns or even crash. Udanax.com - Enfiladic Hypertext. The long history of the Xanadu® vision of hypertext has inspired many individual hypertext efforts. Some, such as Lotus Notes or the Web, were built by others based on aspects of our vision. Now Open Source. Knowledge at the Crossroads - Some Alternative Futures of Hypertext Learning Environments. Introduces some of the possibilities and dangers that are entailed with "hypertext" systems for learning. The Big Picture - Visual Browsing in Web and non-Web Databases. Directory of projects, research, products, and services. Nonlinear Instruction of MIS: Why and When - Dr. Mohamed Khalifa, Journal of Information Systems Education. Information Systems Courseware Design, Hypertext-Based Training. PyWiki - A Python-based Wiki clone with a focus on Knowledge Management. Virtual hierarchies and virtual networks: some lessons from hypermedia usability research applied to the World Wide Web - By P.A. Smith, I.A. Newman and L.M. Parks. Considers the usability of the World Wide Web in the light of a decade of research into the usability of hypertext and hypermedia systems. Bootstrap Institute - The Institute's Mission is to cultivate a knowledge environment which includes a shared dynamic knowledge repository; to foster development of an open platform information system infrastructure, based on an Open Hyperdocument Systems (OHS) framework; and to share the A-B-C's of Bootstrapping and support co-evolution of human organizations and their tools Assoziations-Blaster: truly interactive text network - Text-network that connects texts through automatic non-linear real-time linking. Anybody can enter new text via the WWW-interface, the Blast-Engine at once establishes links to other related entries. Bill Kennelly's History of Hypertext - This site is about the people, systems and key events in the evolution of hypertext. Flip Productions - Infoflip is the printed version of hyperlink text. It allows the writer to link any part of the printed text to other sections within the text. The application opportunities of this printed hypertext format are endless. Consider reference materials, instruction manuals, conference guides, training materials, learning aids, sports events, tourism guides, and sales promotions. Personal Information Intake Filtering - Paul E. Baclace. Explores a hybrid learning algorithm applied to the problem of Information Intake Filtering (IIF). Information Intake refers to information that impinges upon users. Minimizing Information Overload: The Ranking of Electronic Messages - The decision to examine a message at a particular point in time should be made rationally and economically if the message recipient is to operate efficiently. Our model provides a formal method for minimizing expected information overload through information filtering. Drowning in Infoglut? Intelligent Filters to the Rescue! (Sort of...) - Jesse Berst. Intelligent filters store your interests and preferences. Then they screen information so you see only things that match. Profile filtering. Collaborative filtering. Psychographic filtering. Adaptive filtering. Intelligent Message Filter - The Mnemonic Filter learns to make intelligent decisions based on the content of messages. It can find a handful of relevant messages in a vast corpus of irrelevant messages. It can classify messages by topic, exclude unwanted email messages, block objectionable web pages, and reject offensive newsgroup postings. It can also deliver advertisements and promotions to the specific individuals who are most likely to respond. Collaborative Filtering Research Papers - User-updated listing of collaborative filtering research papers with abstracts, links to the full papers, and reader comments. Augmenting Information Seeking on the World Wide Web Using Collaborative Filtering Techniques - Applying Bibliometric analysis, filtering techniques, and collaborative technologies to Web usage data that can, in turn leverage a Web user's Information Seeking behavior. netmation.com | netmation.net | netmation.org | netmation.tv Copyright © 1991-2005 Netmation Inc. All Rights ReservedSite Designed and Hosted by Netmation Inc.