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Minneapolis-based speaker and writer says people are experiencing "Twitter burnout" and other forms of social media overload. He also wonders what happens when you amass 10,000 bookmarks in Delicious – as there's no obsolescence program in place to remove what you no longer need. "Someone needs to answer this question quickly before we run out of space – and before we have so much information 'stored' for ourselves that we simply don't know what to do with it all anymore." - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

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University of Washington professor and IORG member William Jones has a web site, an organization and a book all called "Keeping Found Things Found." Says Jones: "Information inert--misplaced, forgotten or too much trouble to access--does us little good. And information that distracts, confuses or overwhelms can be worse than no information at all. How do we keep our information 'found'? How do we organize it in ways that make sense for us in the lives we want to lead?" - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

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The black hole (when it comes to time), the guilt (about not responding), and the rearrangement of childhood memories are among the reasons this columnist "decided to kick the Facebook habit." - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

Management consultant and knowledge management expert Joel Alleyne says email has become too successful (and/or failed) because it's used for purposes it wasn't designed for and contributes to "information fragmentation." - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

What's interesting about this one are the comments. I'm seeing more and more pushback from under 30s about "too much information" and social media. This post is typical: "I'm 28 and I already feel resistant to the new technologies that are appearing. My company wants to incorporate Twitter and I'm just dreading it." - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

"Call it online sociability fatigue. And it's not just being felt by older folks who have lived most of their lives without the Web. As social networking grows, from stream-of-consciousness Twitter to buttoned-up LinkedIn, even some of the very young people who've helped drive these sites' growth could use a break." - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

Washington Post blogger says Too Much Information "may indeed be the despot's friend. Keep citizens so overwhelmed with data that they can't tell what's important and eventually become incapable of responding to what is. Our brains simply aren't wired to receive and process so much information in such a compressed period." - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

IORG to hold second annual conference APril 26-28 at PARC, a Xerox company, in Palo Alto. “By bringing together experts from such diverse backgrounds, we are creating a powerful dialog on information overload,” said Nathan Zeldes, president and chairman of the board, IORG. “This event will set the stage for further development of solutions to combat the extraordinary challenges we face from today’s information explosion.” - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

"Baby Boomers (those born 1946-1964) are the fastest growing users of social networking sites and are also increasingly reading blogs. Meanwhile, Gen Y interest in these services has plateaued . . . Could they be suffering from social fatigue or do they have enough technology in their lives already?" - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

More companies now are adopting social networking tools to help streamline collaboration among employees, customers and partners. Business software makers see an opportunity. Research firm Saugatuck Technology says young workers will demand sycg technologies. Thus, social networks are "poised to become an important element of user enterprise business operations" over the next few years, says Saugatuck analyst Mark Koenig. - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

"Getting Things Done" author David Allen says there are three main ways social media serves people well: Schmoozing, supporting an agenda, and experimenting. "To use social media effectively, just be sure that you aren't putting more effort in than the result you're getting." Also, "If I want to have Twittered, then it's productive!" - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

One of the five highlighted trends is "Less is the New More," says Edelman Digital's Steve Rubel: "For a while we gorged on information. Now, however, overload is taking its toll. There are signs that many are simplifying and cutting back. This is not a function of the economy. It’s a defense mechanism. Devouring media is out. Selective ignorance and friends as quality filters are in." - Bill Boyd

New book by Dr. Edward Hallowell says we're all overstimulated with too much information and too many obligations. “In order to cope with the many demands of everyday life and the information overload each day brings, a person needs to be able to stop and think, to pause over one point long enough to extract what matters before moving on. . . . Life is a powerful accelerator these days; what separates the successful from the frustrated is the quality of their brakes and their ability to use them.” - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

In an article largely about the state of journalism, Paul Armstrong (@themediaisdying at Twitter) says the "new world" of media "brought us massive amounts of information but no new time to digest it." He says we must "tame our info lust and refocus." - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

Two Indian-American researchers at Minnesota and Oklahoma State Universities use SIMONE (Simulator for Interruptions and Message Overload in Network Environments) to produce models of how e-mail flows within a network of knowledge workers. - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

Singapore university student calls the electronic information stream "info crack" and says "We want to overload . . . Every moment I'm not checking out some new, cool stuff, I'm wasting my time." - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

Fortune editor at large Patricia Sellers says Peter Drucker's widow (who is 98) is working on a book about information overload - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

This article is about more than President Obama's BlackBerry. It's an overview of the high cost of interruptions, distractions and fragmented attention, and quotes IORG members Gloria Mark and Mary Czerwinski. - Bill Boyd from Bookmarklet

"Called SEAmail, for "semantic e-mail addressing," the system allows users to direct a message to people who fulfill certain criteria without necessarily knowing recipients' e-mail addresses, or even their names." - Deva Hazarika from Bookmarklet

how much email are people really getting? how much did things slow down over the holidays? some interesting graphs from our current beta test... - Deva Hazarika from Bookmarklet