"Library: Information Overload" by Lorekeeperhttp://trailfire.com/Lorekeeper/trails/65050Lorekeeper/trails60Beating Information Overload - 8/1/2008 - School Library Journalhttp://trailfire.com/Lorekeeper/marks/234704A friend of mine made a suggestion: treat RSS content like a newspaper, not email. After all, you can miss the newspaper for a few days and not feel that you need to go back and read everything you’ve missed. What a concept! So I set about creating a Web control panel or “dashboard” that I could view each day much in the way I would a newspaper. In so doing, I put three well-known Web content pages—iGoogle, Pageflakes, and Netvibes—through their paces."]]>Library: Information OverloadLorekeeperWed, 20 Aug 2008 20:55:53 -0700trailfire:markId:234704Paper on Information Overloadhttp://trailfire.com/Lorekeeper/marks/234725If we define IO in psychological terms, then we can look at psychological “solutions”, which I think are more elegant than productivity type solutions. I kind of like the cognitive-behavioral models that tell us to watch what we are telling ourselves, as what we say to ourselves internally largely shapes our feelings.

EG thoughts like:
I will NEVER get to all this information;
This is an IMPOSSIBLE task;
I’m BURIED with so much work I’ll FAIL

vs.thoughts like
It’s okay if I can’t get to it all
There will always be new information I won’t be able to read, and that’s the way it is…"

]]>Library: Information OverloadLorekeeperWed, 20 Aug 2008 22:13:00 -0700trailfire:markId:234725Internet suffering from information overload - USATODAY.comhttp://trailfire.com/Lorekeeper/marks/234732
The Internet may be getting too big.

Your first reaction to that should be to think I'm an idiot. It's OK, I'm used to it. How can an information source be too big? How can there be too many books in the library, or too many movies, or too many music CDs?

]]>Library: Information OverloadLorekeeperWed, 03 Jun 2009 23:48:15 -0700trailfire:markId:234732Information overload - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediahttp://trailfire.com/Lorekeeper/marks/234739
  • A rapidly increasing rate of new information being produced
  • The ease of duplication and transmission of data across the Internet
  • An increase in the available channels of incoming information (e.g. telephone, e-mail, instant messaging, rss)
  • Large amounts of historical information to dig through
  • Contradictions and inaccuracies in available information
  • A low signal-to-noise ratio
  • A lack of a method for comparing and processing different kinds of information"
    • ]]>    Library: Information OverloadLorekeeperWed, 03 Jun 2009 23:51:30 -0700trailfire:markId:234739    Main Articles: 'Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload', Ariadne Issue 56http://trailfire.com/Lorekeeper/marks/327520Library: Information OverloadLorekeeperWed, 03 Jun 2009 23:42:05 -0700trailfire:markId:327520