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  How Much Information http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/
An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
  Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer http://www.fno.org/mar97/deep.html
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.
  Information Overload Annotated Webliography http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml
A collection of links about Information Overload.
  Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CHINNEG.html
Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.
  Informing Ourselves to Death http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper
A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
  We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html
Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.
  Managing information http://www.managing-information.org.uk/
Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
  Spinning Around http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515705.html
Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
  Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs125a/content/agentsmaes.doc
Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
  NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE5DD173EF935A25753C1A9659C8B63
Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents.
  eCFO - Fighting Information Overload http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3002204
Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
  Managing Information: Infoglut http://www.informationweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm
New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
  Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_11/hermans/index.html
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.
  Information Overload - An IR problem? http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/spire/1998/8664/00/8664toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/SPIRE.1998.712984
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.
  The Register - Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/15/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.
  The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=653682
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.

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