Managing Information Overload: News and Views

News Media @ CBC

• CBC Sparks transparency Eye Weekly, Canada - 18 Feb 2008,

Today on the Scroll: CBC Radio tries covering technology in a style that fails to shock and appall its existing listenership while doing double duty in earbuds everywhere... But it’s a constant battle against information overload. I’ve got Facebook fatigue now — at some point it becomes, 'No, I don’t want to download another ... continue reading

• Information Overload, Submitted by Jesse Hirsh on Mon, 02/04/2008. [He frequently appears on CBC radio]

Information overload is a growing problem that most of us face each and every day. Email, phone calls, voice mail, facebook notifications, and that doesn't include the endless flow of spam. However there's no reason all this constant communication can't be tamed and organized so that we don't feel the stress and anxiety associated with being under a waterfall of information... continue reading

• CBC Radio show adds a wiki, Mathew Ingram, January 23, 2008 at 1:22 PM EST


• Information overload? Digital data could exceed storage space by 2010 posted Last Updated: Tuesday, March 6, 2007, The Associated Press at CBC radio: CBC.ca

...The report, assembled by the technology research firm IDC, sought to account for all the ones and zeros that make up photos, videos, e-mails, web pages, instant messages, phone calls and other digital content zipping around. The researchers also assumed that on average, each digital file gets replicated three times. continue reading

• IDEAS-Schedule... The Greek philosopher Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living; butwhat does that mean in an age of media saturation and information overload. ... continue reading from cbc.ca

Miscellany:

• Little apostrophe confounds Information Age SEAN ODRISCOLL , Toronto Star, Feb. 22, 2008. It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight - it's the little apostrophe.


• HOW MUCH INFORMATION 2003? This study was produced by faculty and students at the School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley.
  
• Managing Information Overload Blog
  
• Much more @ google's Directory: Knowledge Management > Information Overload