Information Overload Knowledge Management Reference

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• - A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
  
• - 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.]
  
• - New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis.
  
• - Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.
  
• - Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
  
• - Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.
  
• - 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
  
• - 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.
  
• - Scholarly article with definitions, statistics, problems and processes, trends, suggestions, conclusions, and references for further reading.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
  
• - 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).
  
• - Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it.
  
• - Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
  
• - Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
  
• - 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 great
  
• - By William Van Winkle from Computer Bits magazine.