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Archive for the 'Information Overload' Category

Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload

August 28th, 2008

Sarah Houghton-Jan: - “What is information overload? 27 instant messages. 4 text messages. 17 phone calls. 98 work emails. 52 personal emails. 76 email listserv messages. 14 social network messages. 127 social network status updates. 825 RSS feed updates. 30 pages from a book. 5 letters. 11 pieces of junk mail. 1 periodical issue. 3 [...]

RSS Overload?

August 18th, 2008

LawyerKM - “RSS overload continues to plague us.”
Of course, I disagree.

IO For Lawyers?

February 27th, 2008

Robert Ambrogi - “Information overload is crushing white-collar professionals of all ilks, but hitting lawyers particularly hard, according to a LexisNexis survey of workplace productivity published yesterday.”
Law librarians are smiling right now…

2008: Year of Information Overload?

December 26th, 2007

I have always thought that Information Overload doesn’t exist. Stephen Abram has his views on IO and special librarians.

Information Overload is a Myth

November 11th, 2007

Here’s another reason why. It’s all about choices.