Archive for the 'Information Overload' Category
What Information Overload?
January 10th, 2010Noah Brier asks the question.
UC San Diego Experts Calculate How Much Information Americans Consume
December 10th, 2009UC San Diego – “U.S. households consumed approximately 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008, according to the “How Much Information? 2009 Report on American Consumers,” released today by the University of California, San Diego. One zettabyte is 1,000,000,000 trillion bytes, and total bytes consumed last year were the equivalent of the information in thick [...]
Coping with the overload
August 30th, 2008TELEGRAPH-JOURNA – “Technology was supposed to make life easier, but instead people seem to be working more and producing less, as information overload – the constant flow of e-mails, BlackBerry, Twitter, Facebook, and RSS feeds among others – takes over.”
Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload
August 28th, 2008Sarah 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, 2008LawyerKM – “RSS overload continues to plague us.”
Of course, I disagree.
IO For Lawyers?
February 27th, 2008Robert 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, 2007I 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, 2007Here’s another reason why. It’s all about choices.
