Information Overload

Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload
Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs125a/content/agentsmaes.doc

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.
http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/spire/1998/8664/00/8664toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/SPIRE.1998.712984

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

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

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). [PDF]
http://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
Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html

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. <small>(October 16, 2003)</small>
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE5DD173EF935A25753C1A9659C8B63

Spinning Around
Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald] <small>(May 20, 2003)</small>
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515705.html

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. <small>(May 15, 2002)</small>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/15/data_dyspepsia_blights_the_workforce/

eCFO - Fighting Information Overload
Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data. <small>(March, 2001)</small>
http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3002204

How Much Information
An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.] <small>(October, 2000)</small>
http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/

Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload
Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it. <small>(January 7, 2000)</small>
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ca/xml/00/01/10/000110caoverload.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. <small>(February 19, 1999)</small>
http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CHINNEG.html

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. <small>(1998)</small>
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_11/hermans/index.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. <small>(March 1, 1997)</small>
http://www.fno.org/mar97/deep.html

Managing Information: Infoglut
New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley. <small>(October 30, 1995)</small>
http://www.informationweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm

Informing Ourselves to Death
A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society. <small>(October 11, 1990)</small>
http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper