» Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload - Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
» Information Overload - An IR problem? - An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium. A downloadable copy of the entire study is available in .PDF format.
» Information Overload Annotated Webliography - A collection of links about Information Overload.
» Managing information - Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
» The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload - This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organisation. (Acrobat File). [PDF]
» We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload - Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.
» NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom - Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents. (October 16, 2003)
» Spinning Around - Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald] (May 20, 2003)
» The Register - Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce - Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis. (May 15, 2002)
» eCFO - Fighting Information Overload - Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data. (March, 2001)
» How Much Information - An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.] (October, 2000)
» Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload - Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it. (January 7, 2000)
» Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects - Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain. (February 19, 1999)
» Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch - Looks at a number of solutions, including "agency," agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and information brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the online marketplace. By Bjorn Hermans. (1998)
» Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer - Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning, research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate this new information landscape. (March 1, 1997)
» Managing Information: Infoglut - New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley. (October 30, 1995)
» Informing Ourselves to Death - A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society. (October 11, 1990)
