SMH com au -- The daily flow of news, views, mail and spam has exploded since Dr David Lewis first cited Information Overload. Phone calls, emails, voicemails, memos and news items challenge everyone sitting behind a networked computer. This information flow does not improve productivity. Gerry McGovern offers tips on wading through the morass.
- More is not better
- Information must be contextualised.
- McGovern claims 70 per cent of most websites go unread.
- Effectively handle rising tide of information by planning, organising and collaborating more efficiently.
David Shenk in Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut cites "information obesity," saying that where once we lived in a world where food was scarce and people struggled to get enough calories to keep them alive, today the industrialised world has the opposite problem.
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Michelle Weil and Larry Rosen: TechnoStress
James Gleick: The acceleration of just about everything
David Adams: "Spinning around" in Sydney Morning Herald
Roland Piquepaille: Information Obesity
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