Damon Darlin says while technology creates new ways to waste time, it also helps us do a better job of thinking and communicating. - Bill Boyd
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Sarah Houghton-Jan, Digital Futures Manager at the San Jose Public Library, offers techniques on managing multiple types of overload (including Email, RSS, print, multimedia, social network, interruptive technologies) - Bill Boyd
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Computerworld offers an overview of information overload, with emphasis on how technology can help solve the problem it created - Bill Boyd
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this article has a couple of quotes from me, so it must be good! - Deva Hazarika
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deva, you will be the global spokesperson for information overload issues, so, better practice that tranquil, relaxed, on-top-of-it look, or else go for the sympathy vote, totally frazzled ... - Gregory Lent
““‘I suffer from attention surplus disorder,’ jokes a character in Anathem. Attention surplus is exactly what Stephenson teaches his readers, in a book so tightly crafted it rewards instant rereading.” - Stewart Brand”
really good, though i'd say it was more of a level-setting and awareness thing at this point, so relatively light on the content side. now that we have the structure in place, we're ready to get into more substantive theory and research issues. - Deva Hazarika
it is certainly timely .. even the info on this page is very good .. i started a paper called "a yogi looks at attention overload" and will put it here one of these days .. thanks for your reply - Gregory Lent
noah, unless you need this in your life, let it go for awhile, it is just pixels anyway, and the agitation of mind is too high a price to pay ... you are a great painter, make some more paintings perhaps - Gregory Lent
“no links, just a comment ... real life is so full we have to block out most of what is happening just to get to the grocery store ... ... it seems that at work the problem arises becasue we don't have to confidence or the knowledge to know how to ignore much of the flow ... ”
Chris Anderson -- editor-in-chief of Wired and author of 'The Long Tail' -- says, "The quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age." - Bill Boyd
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Interview with Matt Richtel, who reported on the digital deluge for The New York Times, and Alex Wright, a writer, information architect and author of Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages. - Bill Boyd
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David Pogue's advice for processing, filing and responding to email (he receives about 150 messages a day and tries to respond to most). - Bill Boyd
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