Information Pollution

The BBC has this article on dealing with "Information Pollution", an extreme form of information overload.

"The entire ideology of information technology for the last 50 years has been that more information is better, that mass producing information is better," he says."

"But the net is now so much an machine with all the answers instantly, it has mutated into a "procrastination apparatus", which spews information without much prioritisation Dr Nielsen argues."

The article mostly deals with e-mail, and e-mail is a deterrent to keeping current, one issue that I will probably start addressing more on LS. One comment: Dealing with e-mail is more than just getting a spam filter.