Date: 7/30/2020
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload
Source Author: Amanda Lehman and Sophie Jo Miller
Source Date: 7/28/2020
Source Name: MDPI
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In this study, information overload is viewed through the lenses of Library & Information Science and Communication Theory in order to provide recommended solutions for individuals experiencing overload. The purpose of this research was to apply LIS and COMM theories to the pathologies and symptoms of information overload as experienced by individuals in an increasingly digital world. Extant survey work was reviewed and updated with literature collected through limited keyword searches.

Date: 7/3/2020
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Stress Overload COVID-19
Source Author: Sara Gorman, Ph.D., MPH, and Jack M. Gorman, MD
Source Date: 6/4/2020
Source Name: Psychology Today
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Authors argue that endless access to information during COVID-19 might be making matters worse.

Date: 12/31/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: children,Information Overload
Source Author: Carolyne B. Atangaza
Source Date: 12/14/2019
Source Name: Daily Monitor
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

This short article has some thought provoking assertions about the impact of abundant unfiltered content on young children, like “What makes tablets and iPhones so great is the dozens of stimuli at your fingertips, and the ability to process multiple actions simultaneously. This is exactly what young brains do not need.”

Date: 12/8/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload
Source Author: Sabastian Ricard
Source Date: 11/4/2019
Source Name: Forbes
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A CEO gives his take on information overload and how he mitigates it in his company.

Date: 5/22/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Unified communication
Source Author: Rob Scott
Source Date: 5/22/2019
Source Name: UC Today
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Pondering the impact of AI in our worklives.

Date: 5/22/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Artificial Intelligence,Information overlaod
Source Author: Ceecee Wong
Source Date: 5/6/2019
Source Name: CDO Trends
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A look at the role of AI in the future of corporate data management.

Date: 5/15/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email overload
Source Author: Nilanjana Roy
Source Date: 5/2/2017
Source Name: Financial Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A philosophical look at email management strategies.

Date: 5/15/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email overload
Source Author: Vicky Webster and Martin Webster
Source Date: 5/1/2019
Source Name: Leadership Thoughts
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Practical advice on getting in control of the Inbox.

Date: 5/12/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology
Source Author: Micah Hanks
Source Date: 7/21/2018
Source Name: Mysterious Universe
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

This article looks at the many negative effects og overuse of smartphones.

Date: 5/12/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload
Source Author: Francesco D'Alessio
Source Date: 2/16/2017
Source Name: Medium
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The author lists his favorite books to help you combat email overload on a daily basis. These are all written by some of the leading productivity experts who’s managed to be at peace with their inbox.

Date: 5/5/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload
Source Author: Janene Pieters
Source Date: 4/11/2019
Source Name: NLTimes
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Last year 28 percent of all employees in the Netherlands often or always received so much information in a working day that they had difficulty processing it quickly enough. In 2014 it was 25 percent, according to a study by Statistics Netherlands and TNO.

Date: 5/5/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email overload
Source Author: Glenn Rees
Source Date: 5/1/2019
Source Name: INTHEBLACK
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Applications that help you deal with email overload.

Date: 4/23/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Employee Empowerment / Employee Engagement,Flexitime / Flexible Hours,knowledge worker,Workplace
Source Author: Khiv Singh
Source Date: 3/7/2019
Source Name: Business 2 Community
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Technology has vastly changed all aspects of our lives, particularly the workplace. Web conferencing, Skype, the cloud, and even the introduction of virtual reality in the enterprise – the list of changes is significant. But there are other technological tools companies are beginning to use remodel the workplace and the notion of the workday, while improving productivity and employee satisfaction. In 2019, there are five changes in work as we know it that can better the workplace and which can be enabled by today’s digital workplace technology. First among them is that people should be allowed to work remotely. What are the remaining four changes, and how can technology enable them? Click the article link to find out.

Date: 3/12/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: data,distractions,Information Overload,knowledge worker
Source Author: Khiv Singh
Source Date: 3/7/2019
Source Name: Datanami
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

There’s no shortage of enterprise aptitude for digital collaboration tools. But in the midst of this digital collaboration arms race, are we helping or hurting overall workplace productivity and effectiveness? As organizations have placed an ever-increasing focus on adopting new technologies to aid collaboration and engineer a more responsive, real-time business, we’ve now reached a state of communication overload. Today corporate success hinges on intellectual capability, and productivity is dependent on cultivating a focused workplace that facilitates the synthesis of information, for value creation and innovation. To this end, employers must provide an employee experience that facilitates focused work—one that prioritizes attention management or mindfulness and not just the latest technology that is the “flavor of the month.” Via people analytics, organizations and work groups capture and study work patterns and analyze it to understand productivity trends and traps, thus eliminating collaboration overkill and improving the employee experience by minimizing stress and improving efficiency.

Date: 1/23/2019
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email overload,inbox zero
Source Author: Taylor Lorenz
Source Date: 1/8/2019
Source Name: The Atlantic
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

This article promotes the following strategy: inbox infinity. Adopting inbox infinity means accepting the fact that there will be an endless, growing amount of email in your inbox every day, most of which you will never address or even see. It’s about letting email messages wash over you, responding to the ones you can, but ignoring most.”

Date: 8/8/2018
Category: Online Publication
Tags: productivity,Social Networks
Source Author: Sarah Kessler
Source Date: 4/16/2018
Source Name: NextGov web site
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I don’t think having or not having a Facebook (or any other social media) account has anything to do with how productive someone is. You can shut down one source of distractions, but if the fundamental aversion to your work that is driving you to distraction is still in place, you’ll find something else.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Bridget Hernandez
Source Date: 1/5/2016
Source Name: Business Weekly
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The growth of websites like Ancestry.com has helped bring more people into the fold of genealogical research by making resources more accessible. These online tools are helpful to those searching for family connections, but the avalanche of possible matches can be overwhelming.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: politics,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Chriss Lee
Source Date: 11/4/2016
Source Name: ARS Technica
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called “Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF).” David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at Cornell University’s Department of Psychology at the time) conducted a series of four studies showing that, in certain cases, people who are very bad at something think they are actually pretty good. They showed that to assess your own expertise at something, you need to have a certain amount of expertise already.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,mindfulness,Tools
Source Author: Christopher Mele
Source Date: 12/5/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Have you called your daughter by your wife’s name or your son by his brother’s name? Have you misplaced your car keys or forgotten where you parked at the mall? If you worry these might be signs of significant memory loss or the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, which causes a slow deterioration in memory and reasoning skills, fear not, experts said.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,productivity,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Tony Schwartz
Source Date: 2/9/2013
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

THINK for a moment about your typical workday. Do you wake up tired? Check your e-mail before you get out of bed? Skip breakfast or grab something on the run that’s not particularly nutritious? Rarely get away from your desk for lunch? Run from meeting to meeting with no time in between? Find it nearly impossible to keep up with the volume of e-mail you receive? Leave work later than you’d like, and still feel compelled to check e-mail in the evenings?

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: gadgets,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Farhad Manjoo
Source Date: 12/7/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Remember gadgets? They were little electronic things that did stuff for you. They would play music or record videos or give you directions or let you play games on the go. They were fun. Everyone had them. Everyone wanted them. There were whole magazines and websites and even TV shows devoted to them.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 12/8/2016
Source Name: Knowledge @ Wharton
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Dan Roam: I am a business guy who comes out of an art background. I have drawn all my life, starting as a little kid. If you think about it, most of us have drawn when we were very young. I just kept on doing it. That brought me into a managing consulting role, where I was the weirdo who would go up to the flip chart or the white board and draw a picture of whatever I heard people talking about. Now I want to be clear, the pictures I was drawing were exceedingly simple. They might be a couple of circles, a box, a triangle, an arrow connecting them. If I was feeling really artistic, I might even add a stick figure up there somewhere and then some labels.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: book,Information Overload,news,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Ariana Huffington
Source Date: 12/12/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

We hear a lot about the many things that are disrupting the American workplace: the decline of manufacturing, demographics, globalization, automation and, especially, technology. And it’s true — all of those are roiling the world of work, not just in America but worldwide.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jeff Guo
Source Date: 12/14/2016
Source Name: new york times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

For better or for worse, homework has gone online. Children these days conduct research on the Internet, post messages to classroom discussion boards or complete Web-based learning programs. The Federal Communications Commission warns that students who don’t have fast Internet connections “are at a disadvantage relative to their connected peers,” which is one reason the government recently decided to spend billions a year helping low-income households hook up to broadband.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: economics,Information Overload,jobs,labor force
Source Author: Claire Cain Miller
Source Date: 12/21/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out pages. Later, she watched machines learn to do her jobs on a factory floor making breathing machines, and in inventory and filing.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: hackers,Information Overload,news,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jim Kerstetter
Source Date: 12/21/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A parent or teacher might wonder at the world of cyberthieves and hackers and think, “If only they used all that brain power for something positive.” On Tuesday, White Ops, a security company that specializes in tracking online advertising, released an astonishing report about a ring of thieves based in Russia that created a huge number of fake news sites meant to look like real news sites and hundreds of thousands of bots meant to act like real users.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: body,Information Overload,meditation,mind,mindfulness
Source Author: David Gelles
Source Date: 12/21/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Meditation is a simple practice available to all, which can reduce stress, increase calmness and clarity and promote happiness. Learning how to meditate is straightforward, and the benefits can come quickly. Here, we offer basic tips to get you started on a path toward greater equanimity, acceptance and joy. Take a deep breath, and get ready to relax.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,language,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Caitlin Dewey
Source Date: 10/15/2015
Source Name: The Washington Post
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Technological change, as we know very well, tends to provoke linguistic and cultural change, too. It’s the reason why, several times a year, dictionaries trumpet the addition of new and typically very trendy words. But more interesting than the new words, I think, are the old words that have gotten new meanings: words such as “cloud” and “tablet” and “catfish,” with very long pre-Internet histories. The reappropriation is rarely random; in most cases, the original meaning of the word is a metaphor for the new one. Our data is as remote as a cloud, for instance; catfish are just as tricky and unpredictable as an online love interest.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: academia,Information Overload,learning,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Kevin Carey
Source Date: 12/29/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The caller ID on my office telephone said the number was from Las Vegas, but when I picked up the receiver I heard what sounded like a busy overseas call center in the background. The operator, “John,” asked if I would be interested in attending the 15th World Cardiology and Angiology Conference in Philadelphia next month.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,rest,Technology
Source Author: Alissa J. Rubin
Source Date: 1/2/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

PARIS — If the world does not envy the French enough already for their generous vacations, universal health care and fine food and wine, the arrival of 2017 brings this: a newly created “right to disconnect.” Though ridiculed in some quarters as a ban on work-related email after hours, it is not quite that. But it is born of the enlightened view that it is actually beneficial for people not to work all the time, and that workers have the right to occasionally draw the line when their employer’s demands intrude on evenings at home, treasured vacations or Sundays with friends and family.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: book,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Corey Doctorow
Source Date: 1/2/2017
Source Name: BoingBoing
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Two employees at the East Lake County Library created a fictional patron called Chuck Finley — entering fake driver’s license and address details into the library system — and then used the account to check out 2,361 books over nine months in 2016, in order to trick the system into believing that the books they loved were being circulated to the library’s patrons, thus rescuing the books from automated purges of low-popularity titles.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: employment,jobs,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Philip Berry
Source Date: 12/27/2015
Source Name: big think
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The Trump campaign ran on bringing jobs back to American shores, although mechanization has been the biggest reason for manufacturing jobs’ disappearance. Similar losses have led to populist movements in several other countries. But instead of a pro-job growth future, economists across the board predict further losses as AI, robotics, and other technologies continue to be ushered in. What is up for debate is how quickly this is likely to occur.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Europe,Information Overload,language
Source Author: James Kanter
Source Date: 1/4/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

It’s not easy to speak with one voice in 24 languages. When what is now the European Union first took root in the 1950s, it included just six nations, and in three of them many people spoke French. It could sidestep national jealousies without trouble by designating most of the member nations’ main languages as official languages.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Facebook,Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Joanne Orlando
Source Date: 12/27/2016
Source Name: Mashable
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

You might think it’s cute to snap a photo of your toddler running around in a playground or having a temper tantrum, and then posting it on social media. But did you ever think it might be a mistake, or even illegal? The French government earlier this year warned parents to stop posting images of their children on social media networks. Under France’s rigorous privacy laws, parents could face penalties of up to a year in prison and a fine of €45,000 ($46,456) if convicted of publicising intimate details of their children without their consent.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Google,Information Overload,internet,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Peter Lynch
Source Date: 1/19/2016
Source Name: IrishTimes
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The world has been transformed by the internet. Google, founded just 20 years ago, is a major force in online information. The company name is a misspelt version of “googol”, the number one followed by one hundred zeros. This name echoes the vast quantities of information available through the search engines of the company.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,politics
Source Author: Gary Kasparov
Source Date: 1/16/2016
Source Name: The Parallax
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The past year was a somber one for democracies around the world, as distaste for political institutions and political elites reached a breaking point. Brexit triumphed over common sense, and united defense, in England. Extreme right-wing politicians continued their march to power in continental Europe. And the U.S. Electoral College victory of Donald Trump secured the election of a populist demagogue who openly criticizes the democratic system.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,mathematics,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Filbert Tsai
Source Date: 1/16/2017
Source Name: BusinessMirror
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Financial dashboards have become one of the most saleable feature of an accounting software. Filled with colorful graphs and data visualization tools, these dashboards provide quick insights on how a business is performing.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: farming,Information Overload,society,Tools
Source Author: Raney Rapp
Source Date: 1/17/2016
Source Name: Farm Talk
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Modern commodity markets are fickle, with profits and penalties seemingly jumping out of thin air. At the 2017 Kansas Soybean Expo, Advanced Market Concepts consultant Darrell Holaday explained tactics for farmers to make futures markets more friend than foe. Perpetual inputs cause extreme volatility in markets today, with information overload causing futures to “almost know too much,” Holaday said. While the prospect of jumping into unpredictable markets seems daunting to some, Holaday said today’s markets are more navigable than ever.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information,Information Overload,mathematics,Science,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Katie Beck
Source Date: 1/17/2017
Source Name: Fleet World
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The exponential rise in the adoption of telematics by companies is raising vital questions that every fleet manager should have answers to. With the devices generating reams of data, there is a growing onus on those controlling fleet operations to ensure that they are acting on this information and not ignoring ticking timebombs which could land them, and their business, in court.

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: brain,Information Overload,mental,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Aimee Okafor
Source Date: 1/18/2017
Source Name: The Huffington Post
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

We now spend 10 hours a day looking at a screen. That’s nearly half of our lives spent living in a virtual world. The iPhone was released just 10 years ago. Our existence has been radically transformed in a relatively short space of time. While it is hard to remember life before computers, research shows that we aren’t as effective on screens as we might think. We tested the effects of multi-screening on brand recall and found that when dealing with more than one device at a time, the mental strain decreases our attention and emotional response and eventually leads to cognitive collapse – which means people are looking, but they haven’t the mental energy to take more in (all too familiar a feeling in the connected lives we lead.)

Date: 1/24/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Art,data,Information Overload
Source Author: Keith Powers
Source Date: 1/16/2017
Source Name: Marblehead
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Get ready for the onslaught of small data. Or non-data. Anti-data. Anything but big data. Katherine Mitchell DiRico’s exhibition “Data Sets,” on view through Feb. 4 at Montserrat College’s Schlosberg Gallery, wants you to think about data, implies data, and establishes an aesthetic around data – all without any data. Her delicate, barely visible wall installations – pinned wire, some string, pencil marks, shockingly little color – look like carelessly copied musical scores, or perverse renderings of DaVinci’s geometric anatomical drawings. Pinned wire and string emanate from a central, tangled cluster, stretching out into incoherent, unequal directions.

Date: 1/23/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: humans,Information Overload
Source Author: Daryl Passmore
Source Date: 12/31/2016
Source Name: The Courrier Mail
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

EMOTION is increasingly trumping education when it comes to decision-making by Australians, according to leading demographer Mark McCrindle. “With a third of all young people now completing a university degree, the population has never been better educated,’’ he says.

Date: 1/23/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jason Farago
Source Date: 1/5/2017
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

All the news that’s fit to paint can be found in the exhibition by Wade Guyton, at the uptown branch of Petzel Gallery. This sly American painter, subject of a poker-faced, challenging retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2012, came to prominence for his printed canvases of black stripes, licking flames and stand-alone Xs and Us, whose repetitive computer imagery was made strange through imprecise edges and wonky ink saturations. But these new works, in contrast to his earlier minimal compositions, are packed with information, as they draw their imagery from … well, from the website you’re now reading. (Or, if you are in the habit of reading print, this newspaper’s digital version.)

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,politics,Technology
Source Author: Ariel Nepomuceno
Source Date: 12/14/2016
Source Name: BusinessMirror
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

We all know the drill: There is a guaranteed consequence for not telling the truth. We have learned this early on in the popular parlor game that has kept us entertained at parties and get-togethers during our younger years. And even back then, there were occasions when we intentionally opted for the consequence, no matter how ridiculously difficult it was, because truth has its way of making us uncomfortable.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Art,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Brock Brake
Source Date: 12/9/2016
Source Name: The Hundreds
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I first met mixed media artist Clark Goolsby as he was unpacking a box of work during an installation for a solo exhibition in San Francisco earlier this year. As a gallery working for an artist for the first time, this unwrapping procedure can be very intimate for both parties. Perhaps I’m only speaking for myself—but it’s emotional. Seeing these works for the first time that few have seen before, there is a special dialogue that takes place between artist and the gallery they are unveiling these works to. The explanation of the works from the artist’s point of view during these types of unveiling processes is what I live for as a gallerist and curator.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Stephen Phillips
Source Date: 12/16/2016
Source Name: My SA
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Sherry Turkle, Nicholas Carr and, most recently, Andrew Sullivan have articulated a deeply felt sense of malaise about importuning technology, its atrophying effect on age-old human faculties and corresponding impoverishment of our inner lives. Columbia Law School professor and New Yorker contributor Wu’s contribution to the oeuvre is to spotlight the industrial dynamics, business tactics, psychological techniques and our supine submission as consumers that have brought us to this pass.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 12/15/2016
Source Name: CBS Minnesota
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A new survey shows that less Americans feel like they are suffering from “information overload.” If you type in “information overload” into Google, you get nearly 4 million hits. But, a new survey shows that just 20 percent of Americans actually feel overloaded.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,politics,Technology
Source Author: Sapna Maheshwari
Source Date: 11/20/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Eric Tucker, a 35-year-old co-founder of a marketing company in Austin, Tex., had just about 40 Twitter followers. But his recent tweet about paid protesters being bused to demonstrations against President-elect Donald J. Trump fueled a nationwide conspiracy theory — one that Mr. Trump joined in promoting.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Bruce Feiler
Source Date: 11/19/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In the Broadway classic “The Music Man,” set in 1912, the con artist Harold Hill shows up in River City, Iowa, and attempts to persuade the otherwise contented townspeople that their youth are slipping into degradation. He singles out a billiard parlor, “the devil’s playground,” as the root.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: photography,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Caleb Horton
Source Date: 12/21/2016
Source Name: MTV News
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Photography is miraculous because it allows you to bottle time and place and mood. You can stand in a place and capture what it felt like at a specific moment in time. As time passes and the place changes and you change, the photograph becomes more emotionally charged, because you can’t replicate it. You bottled something you can’t bottle again.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Bret Ahnell
Source Date: 12/20/2016
Source Name: fei daily
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Human error is to blame for some of the costliest industrial losses and business interruptions. Leaving a roll of paper towels in a turbine? The tally: $11 million. Pulling the wrong switch and draining the oil from a generator? $23 million. Closing a compressor valve that should have remained open? A fire and 30-day production shutdown.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Sedarius Tekara Perrotta
Source Date: 12/21/2016
Source Name: CMS Wire
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The rate at which we consume data is having a profoundly negative impact on the way we think, work, and live. Between the 1980s and the 2000s, the amount of information we consumed rocketed and, unsurprisingly, has continued to increase. Compared to the fifteenth century,

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Michael Batchelder
Source Date: 12/21/2016
Source Name: Omaha World Herald
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Working in the news business, I pay pretty close attention to what’s going on both locally and around the world. With television news, traditional newspapers, Twitter, Facebook and even Snapchat, there’s an unlimited number of places I can learn more about what’s going on in the world, ranging from celebrity gossip to the tragedies currently taking place in Syria.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Gary Robbins
Source Date: 12/21/2016
Source Name: The Sydney Morning Herald
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A new report from the Pew Research Centre in the US says that most Americans do not suffer from information overload — even though many frequently say otherwise. Only 20 per cent of 1520 people surveyed by Pew in April said they felt overwhelmed, compared with 27 per cent who were asked the same question in 2006.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Facebook,Information Overload,news,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Cameron Smith
Source Date: 12/16/2016
Source Name: Al.com
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I remember when I didn’t have opinions about everything. There were many, many events that happened in the world, and I was either blissfully unaware or simply an observer without much of a reaction at all.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 12/28/2016
Source Name: Tech Featured
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Like any other technology, the web is evolving and it is evolving rather quickly. Due to lack of standards, there seems to be a little bewilderment regarding its evolution and versions.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Shahilla Barok
Source Date: 12/29/2016
Source Name: Huffiest Lifestyle
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I don’t know about you but even I, as an avid learner of all things new and good for me, am about to burst! Do you feel like that too? We are fortunate and at the same time afflicted by the constant and free access to so much information.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,libraries,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Wesley Wright
Source Date: 12/23/2016
Source Name: The Virginia Gazette
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

As the Internet has become the chief reference tool for people young and old, libraries have evolved to remain relevant. Much of human history is available on the Internet in some form, and most people who have access to an Internet connection use it a conduit to find what they need.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: ELDAD FARKASH
Source Date: 12/23/2016
Source Name: Information Management
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The Internet of Things (IoT) is quickly becoming a way of life, making its way from consumer environments in homes and retail environments – to now becoming an integral part of the modern enterprise.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Audri Taylors
Source Date: 12/28/2016
Source Name: University Herald
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Information overload is something that has already become quite familiar to many of us, from texts, tweets, emails, posts and articles on the Internet and in the social media. But, ironically, we still keep on clicking on them and reading them and spending minutes and even hours on them. There may be a great flow of information around us, thanks to technology that makes it a lot easier for us to have access to those information. But, there are actually ways by which you can deal with them and avoid getting overload.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: football,Information Overload,sports,Technology
Source Author: Kelly Hall
Source Date: 12/28/2016
Source Name: The Michigan Daily
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Like most football players competing at the Division I level, Taco Charlton wants to win at everything. After three weeks of preparing for Florida State, though, things can start to feel monotonous. The senior defensive end said Wednesday that his attention to detail starts to improve when the Michigan football team starts to mix things up and integrate new drills and games in practice.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Sarah DiGiulio
Source Date: 12/26/2016
Source Name: The Huffington Post
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

If this isn’t the first article ― or Facebook post or tweet ― you’ve read today, you’re probably not alone. A 2015 poll showed workers report spending as many as 6.3 hours everyday just checking emails. And earlier this year, Facebook reported its users spend an average of 50 minutes everyday on its site, including the app and messaging app. If the numbers seem overwhelming, rest assured. Americans actually reported feel less overwhelmed by the amount of information coming their way this year than they did a decade ago, according to the latest Pew Research Center data. Approximately 20 percent of people reported feeling overwhelmed by “information overload” in a Pew survey reported earlier this month, compared with 27 percent reporting the same thing in a 2006 survey.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jason Farago
Source Date: 1/5/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

All the news that’s fit to paint can be found in the exhibition by Wade Guyton, at the uptown branch of Petzel Gallery. This sly American painter, subject of a poker-faced, challenging retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2012, came to prominence for his printed canvases of black stripes, licking flames and stand-alone Xs and Us, whose repetitive computer imagery was made strange through imprecise edges and wonky ink saturations. But these new works, in contrast to his earlier minimal compositions, are packed with information, as they draw their imagery from … well, from the website you’re now reading. (Or, if you are in the habit of reading print, this newspaper’s digital version.)

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Carl Richards
Source Date: 7/5/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

My wife and I are setting up a customs screening station in our driveway. No, we’re not starting an international airport. And it’s not for solicitors, strangers or gift-bearing guests. It’s for us and our stuff. From now on, before anything new comes into the house, resident buyers will need to answer a series of questions. How much did it cost? Are you replacing something you already own? Why do you think it’s amazing? And if it’s food, are you sure you’ll eat it?

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jamie Holmes
Source Date: 11/25/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

It’s bad enough that expertise is under attack these days from populist political movements that dismiss specialist opinion as just another establishment ruse. But lately expertise is being criticized from another direction, too — from would-be defenders of science.

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,office,Technology,Tools,work
Source Author:
Source Date: 11/20/2016
Source Name: Marketoonist
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

When James Thompson started his job as Diageo CMO, he tallied the number of presentation slides he was exposed to in his first two months of meetings. The final count — more than 12,000. I read in AdAge that he started a PowerPoint ban in some Diageo meetings to “just talk to me please” and help convey that the team doesn’t have to be “totally buttoned-up all the time.”

Date: 1/13/2017
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email,internet,Social Networks,Technology
Source Author: Cal Newport
Source Date: 11/19/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I’m a millennial computer scientist who also writes books and runs a blog. Demographically speaking I should be a heavy social media user, but that is not the case. I’ve never had a social media account. At the moment, this makes me an outlier, but I think many more people should follow my lead and quit these services. There are many issues with social media, from its corrosion of civic life to its cultural shallowness, but the argument I want to make here is more pragmatic: You should quit social media because it can hurt your career.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: elections,Information Overload,politics,Tools
Source Author: STEVE LOHR and NATASHA SINGER
Source Date: 11/10/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

It was a rough night for number crunchers. And for the faith that people in every field — business, politics, sports and academia — have increasingly placed in the power of data. Donald J. Trump’s victory ran counter to almost every major forecast — undercutting the belief that analyzing reams of data can accurately predict events. Voters demonstrated how much predictive analytics, and election forecasting in particular, remains a young science: Some people may have been misled into thinking Hillary Clinton’s win was assured because some of the forecasts lacked context explaining potentially wide margins of error.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,politics
Source Author: Mike Isaac
Source Date: 11/12/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

SAN FRANCISCO — Late on Tuesday night, as it became clear that Donald J. Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton to win the presidential election, a private chat sprang up on Facebook among several vice presidents and executives of the social network. What role, they asked each other, had their company played in the election’s outcome?

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Henry Bodkin
Source Date: 11/14/2016
Source Name: The Telegraph
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The NHS email system ground to a halt on Monday after a “test” message was mistakenly sent to more than 840,000 employees. Hundreds of curious staff immediately began hitting “reply to all”, flooding servers with more email traffic in one morning than the system usually copes with in a month.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,politics,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Zeynep Tufekci
Source Date: 11/15/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Donald J. Trump’s supporters were probably heartened in September, when, according to an article shared nearly a million times on Facebook, the candidate received an endorsement from Pope Francis. Their opinions on Hillary Clinton may have soured even further after reading a Denver Guardian article that also spread widely on Facebook, which reported days before the election that an F.B.I. agent suspected of involvement in leaking Mrs. Clinton’s emails was found dead in an apparent murder-suicide.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: cellphones,Social Networks,Technology,too
Source Author: Steve Lohr
Source Date: 11/12/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The next time someone asks you for your cellphone number, you may want to think twice about giving it. The cellphone number is more than just a bunch of digits. It is increasingly used as a link to private information maintained by all sorts of companies, including money lenders and social networks. It can be used to monitor and predict what you buy, look for online or even watch on television.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Quentin Hardy
Source Date: 11/1/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I used to teach at the graduate school of information sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. I couldn’t believe how many students looked at ESPN.com or its ilk in class. We live in a world of screens, where digital distractions contend with our need to learn. Is multitasking a good idea?

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jim Rutenburg
Source Date: 11/9/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

All the dazzling technology, the big data and the sophisticated modeling that American newsrooms bring to the fundamentally human endeavor of presidential politics could not save American journalism from yet again being behind the story, behind the rest of the country. The news media by and large missed what was happening all around it, and it was the story of a lifetime. The numbers weren’t just a poor guide for election night — they were an off-ramp away from what was actually happening.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,politics,Social Networks
Source Author: Chris Baraniuk
Source Date: 11/17/2016
Source Name: qz.com
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In the week since Donald Trump’s victory, debate has raged over the role played by social media in the US election. Both Trump and his campaign’s digital director have partially credited social networks for his win, and Mark Zuckerberg has been under huge pressure to tackle the proliferation of fake stories on Facebook. On Wednesday, a BuzzFeed analysis found that fake news outperformed real news in the run-up to Election Day, and Oxford Dictionaries declared its word of the year to be “post-truth.” All in all, a tough time for objectivity.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,Tools
Source Author: JC Torres
Source Date: 12/12/2016
Source Name: Slash Gear
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The Internet is without a doubt one of the most powerful things man has ever invented. It has made the world a smaller place, at least digitally, and has made it easy for any voice to be heard. Almost too easy. It has made spreading false or inaccurate information as easy as clicking “Retweet” or “Re-post”. Coupled with a culture of instant gratification, that has become a recipe for disaster. That disaster has a new name this year, and it’s called “Fake News”. Sadly, Fake news is actually nothing new, aside from the now more severe geopolitical implications. The good news, it can be beaten. The bad news is, it requires undoing the fortunately still young culture of mindless reading and sharing on the Web.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Tools
Source Author: Wayne Robins
Source Date: 12/10/2016
Source Name: Forward
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Driving his 20-year-old Mercedes-Benz up and around the winding roads toward his house in the hills in a semirural area of San Francisco’s East Bay, Daniel J. Levitin is an enthusiastic guide to the abundant variety of trees in his neighborhood: California live oak, redwood, Pacific madrone. Suddenly, he brakes while making a turn and puts the car in reverse so that he can check out and describe what’s happening at a telephone pole.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Julie-anne Sprague
Source Date: 12/12/2016
Source Name: Financial Review
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Perhaps it’s our increasingly congested cities or maybe it’s the fast-paced daily information overload but there’s something about plenty of space – be it in a room or outdoors – that has become alluring and downright luxurious. There’s plenty of bling at Perth’s newest hotel, Crown Towers, which officially opened with an exclusive event on Wednesday. But there’s something about the cavernous spaces that makes it feel so much more opulent.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: history,Information Overload,Technology,too
Source Author: Andrew Sandoval
Source Date: 12/10/2016
Source Name: Mesa Legend
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In science, they say, “what you see is what you get”. Usually what you’re looking at for the most part is the truth, but there is so much to take in in this world. When it comes to people and their stories they run so much deeper than a surface glance; sometimes it’s hard to tell which truth we are looking at.It’s normal for us to make up our mind on how we feel about something, almost immediately, it’s a common turn of phrase, don’t judge a book by its cover, advice much of humanity seems to have forgotten. We all have different faces for different situations, when we argue we put on intimidating eyes and flared nostrils, when we are sad we avert our eyes and are somber in tone when we are happy we use our eyes to stare right into whatever it is which has ignited our joy.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Science,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 12/8/2016
Source Name: EurekAlert
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In a study conducted by the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) and the Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference (COIN), laboratory test subjects read the introductions of Wikipedia articles of their own choice. During the reading session, the test subjects’ EEG was recorded, and the readings were then used to model which key words the subjects found interesting.

Date: 12/12/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Art,Information Overload,Tools
Source Author: Brock Brake
Source Date: 12/9/2016
Source Name: The Hundreds
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I first met mixed media artist Clark Goolsby as he was unpacking a box of work during an installation for a solo exhibition in San Francisco earlier this year. As a gallery working for an artist for the first time, this unwrapping procedure can be very intimate for both parties. Perhaps I’m only speaking for myself—but it’s emotional. Seeing these works for the first time that few have seen before, there is a special dialogue that takes place between artist and the gallery they are unveiling these works to. The explanation of the works from the artist’s point of view during these types of unveiling processes is what I live for as a gallerist and curator.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Matt Novak
Source Date: 12/9/2016
Source Name: Gizmodo
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Do you feel like you’re currently being inundated with too much information? People have been warning about the threat of “information overload” for decades. But a new poll by Pew Research Center shows that most Americans don’t feel overloaded at all. Unless you’re elderly or make very little money. Which, at the end of the day, makes the threat of information overload a workers’ rights issue.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,politics,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Kate Magee
Source Date: 11/10/2016
Source Name: Campaign Live
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Congratulations, then, to 18 Feet & Rising, the first UK ad agency to be certified as a B Corporation. What’s noteworthy is the shop and its shareholders have agreed to put positive social impact on an equal footing with pursuit of profit. It is not the only agency aiming to “do good”, but it is rare for one to be prepared to sacrifice money for principles. On page 19, the agency’s chief executive, Jonathan Trimble, explains how he is trying to resolve the inherent tension between being both a good corporate citizen and a tool of a capitalist society that relies on consumers buying more. He believes the answer is “less, better advertising”. I agree.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,robotics,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Dave Pell
Source Date: 12/9/2016
Source Name: Wired
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

You’ve got the tweets. The Facebook updates. The breaking news notifications vibrating in your pocket. The overstuffed inbox. The text messages. The conversations with Siri and Alexa. Real news. Fake news. All of it coming at you day and night in a never-ending stream that moves so fast that it becomes a screaming blur that makes you want to bang your head against a brick wall until the lost consciousness finally silences the machine and provides you with some degree of sanctuary from the madness.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Science,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 12/8/2016
Source Name: Science Daily
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In a study conducted by the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) and the Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference (COIN), laboratory test subjects read the introductions of Wikipedia articles of their own choice. During the reading session, the test subjects’ EEG was recorded, and the readings were then used to model which key words the subjects found interesting.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO
Source Date: 11/7/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

WASHINGTON — Out of hundreds of thousands of emails seized last month from disgraced former Representative Anthony D. Weiner, a substantial number turned out to be copies of documents already reviewed by F.B.I. agents and analysts, allowing the agency to wrap up in days a review that some had feared would take weeks, if not longer.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,internet,politics,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 11/3/2016
Source Name: Buzzfeed
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

“This is the news of the millennium!” said the story on WorldPoliticus.com. Citing unnamed FBI sources, it claimed Hillary Clinton will be indicted in 2017 for crimes related to her email scandal. “Your Prayers Have Been Answered,” declared the headline. For Trump supporters, that certainly seemed to be the case. They helped the baseless story generate over 140,000 shares, reactions, and comments on Facebook.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,politics,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jim Rutenburg
Source Date: 11/6/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The last year has turned the United States into a country of information addicts who compulsively check the television, the smartphone and the good old-fashioned newspaper with a burning question: What fresh twist could our national election drama and its executive producer, Donald J. Trump, possibly have in store for us now?

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: medicine,Science,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 12/8/2016
Source Name: Medical Press
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

For the first time, information retrieval is possible with the help of EEG interpreted with machine learning. In a study conducted by the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT) and the Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference (COIN), laboratory test subjects read the introductions of Wikipedia articles of their own choice. During the reading session, the test subjects’ EEG was recorded, and the readings were then used to model which key words the subjects found interesting.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Laurie Sullivan
Source Date: 12/7/2016
Source Name: Media Post
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The search box will disappear in 2017, replaced by algorithms that can identify the type of information people need. The transformation has begun through spoken queries, especially in mobile and smart-home settings, Susan Dumais, distinguished scientist and deputy managing director Redmond, Washington, Microsoft Research Lab, wrote in the “17 for ’17: Microsoft researchers on what to expect in 2017 and 2027.”

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: government,Information Overload,military,secrets
Source Author: Micah Lee and Margot Williams
Source Date: 12/7/2016
Source Name: The Intercept
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

BY THE FIRST half of 2004, the National Security Agency was drowning in information. It had amassed 85 billion phone and online call records and cut the ribbon on a new hacking center in Hawaii — but it was woefully short on linguists who could make sense of captured communications and lacked enough network analysts to effectively monitor all the systems it had hacked.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jeff Hough
Source Date: 12/6/2016
Source Name: Standard Journal
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Each week as I sit down to write this article I sift through a file of article ideas. Choosing the topic for the week can be a challenge. Sometimes the choice is easy because I have an idea that has to get out of my head. Yet other weeks are difficult because I haven’t found anything interesting. After thinking about my decision process, I began reflecting on the decisions I make each day.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,medicine,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Roni Robins
Source Date: 12/6/2016
Source Name: BioPharmaDrive
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

2016 is on pace to be another record year for new cancer articles in the literature — 143,034 at the time of this writing. That’s 630 articles every weekday. And that’s just the medical journal articles. Add to that the thousands of annually produced abstracts presented at oncology meetings, FDA releases, guidelines changes, and all the rest and you have a true information blizzard for practicing oncologists to weather.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: distractions,Information Overload,internet
Source Author: Ed Brayton
Source Date: 9/18/2016
Source Name: Pathos
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The liberal side of the internet has a serious problem in the form of far too many websites that people mistake for actual news sites that use clickbait headlines and highly distorted articles to feed into the confirmation bias of their intended audience. And it works. Far too many people, including some of you I’m sure, are falling for it.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: cellphones,Information Overload,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Brooke Lea Foster
Source Date: 10/28/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Sherry Zheng was cleaning up from dinner, ready to toss out the remaining fried rice, when she grabbed her phone from the counter to text her husband, Chris. He was upstairs bathing their three children. “Should I save you the leftovers?” Her phone vibrated: “Sure.”

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: cellphones,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Joanna Stern
Source Date: 10/28/2016
Source Name: Wall Street Journal
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In 1986, the answering machine was a miracle. In 2016, it’s a joke.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: cities,Information Overload,society
Source Author: Tom Musick
Source Date: 11/26/2016
Source Name: Safety+Health
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Although the rankings for OSHA’s Top 10 most cited violations change little from year to year, the agency provides dozens of statistics. Glance too quickly at the numbers for fiscal year 2016, and you might experience a sense of information overload. A simple approach is best, said Patrick Kapust, deputy director of OSHA’s Directorate of Enforcement Programs. He presented the agency’s Top 10 list of most frequently cited violations for the past fiscal year in October during the 2016 National Safety Council Congress & Expo in Anaheim, CA. “Take the list,” Kapust said, “and look at your own workplace off of that list. ‘These are the things OSHA is finding. Would they find these at my workplace?’ It’s a good place to start.”

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,politics
Source Author: Ben Graham Jones
Source Date: 11/28/2016
Source Name: Open Democracy
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Election surprises are only surprises when their causes are poorly understood. Three recent nationwide votes in the USA and UK have produced three dramatic surprises – Trump’s victory, Brexit, and the Conservative party’s 2015 Commons majority. It is my view that observers have failed to predict each in large part because they have failed to understand the importance of message discipline. As a professional election observer, I am convinced that in the age of mass information, use of message discipline is one of the defining characteristics separating winners from losers.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Health,Information Overload,medicine
Source Author:
Source Date: 11/27/2016
Source Name: The Jordan Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

While much of the world today suffers from information overload, there are still places where information is scarce. And that scarcity sometimes costs people their lives. In the maternity ward of Zanzibar’s largest public health facility, Mnazi Mmoja Hospital, patient data is listed on a dry-erase board. The information on the board consists of the number of women admitted, the type and severity of their conditions, and whether or not they survived.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Facebook,Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Sidharth Shekhar
Source Date: 11/29/2016
Source Name: PC Quest
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The rise of social media in the digital age has altered the way we source our information. However, filtering the right information from the wrong one is not always easy. Social media has provided a platform to everyone to share their opinion with the world. But social networking isn’t making you smarter. In fact, it could be making you dumber by providing insights without requiring any actual thinking.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email,Information Overload,internet,Social Networks,Tools
Source Author: Lucy Roue
Source Date: 11/20/2016
Source Name: Manchester Evening News
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Information overload has become part of modern day life, but it isn’t always possible to power down and zone out. Just a few decades ago, hardly any of us had access to the technology we do today, but now on average we spend up to 12 hours a day transfixed by digital devices and technology. 75% of us are using mobile phones, and over a billion humans are just a few clicks from being friends on Facebook. At the push of a button or swipe of a screen, we communicate, share and create with nearly anyone, anytime, anywhere.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: disease,medicine,Technology
Source Author: Ed Tobias
Source Date: 11/22/2016
Source Name: Multiple Sclerosis News Today
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

You know the saying about having too much of a good thing? I think that’s me, right now, as I think about starting infusions of the multiple sclerosis drug Lemtrada on Dec. 5. Lemtrada is supposed to be a super drug. As I wrote in an earlier column, my neurologist calls it “stem cell lite.” Some wheelchair-bound MS patients have been able to take some steps after completing a course of Lemtrada. Others report similar improvements in other symptoms.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology
Source Author: David Brooks
Source Date: 10/18/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Kathy Fletcher and David Simpson have a son named Santi, who went to Washington, D.C., public schools. Santi had a friend who sometimes went to school hungry. So Santi invited him to occasionally eat and sleep at his house. That friend had a friend and that friend had a friend, and now when you go to dinner at Kathy and David’s house on Thursday night there might be 15 to 20 teenagers crammed around the table, and later there will be groups of them crashing in the basement or in the few small bedrooms upstairs.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email,Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Farhad Manjoo
Source Date: 10/19/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Every four years, pundits race to anoint this or that newfangled tech trend as the next disruptive force to forever alter the mechanics of American democracy. The 2016 campaign has already been called the Snapchat election, the Periscope election, the Meerkat election, the Twitter election, the Facebook election and the meme election. (If there were a vomit emoji, I’d insert one here. And then we’d have the emoji election.)

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: distractions,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Verena von Pfetten
Source Date: 4/29/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Stop what you’re doing. Well, keep reading. Just stop everything else that you’re doing. Mute your music. Turn off your television. Put down your sandwich and ignore that text message. While you’re at it, put your phone away entirely. (Unless you’re reading this on your phone. In which case, don’t. But the other rules still apply.)

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,politics,security,Tools
Source Author: Eleanor Lamb
Source Date: 11/16/2016
Source Name: MeriTalk
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Extreme vetting will require better, smarter data, according to Donna Roy, executive director of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Information Sharing and Services Office (IS2O). President-elect Donald Trump ran his campaign on the commitment to remove illegal Mexican residents and temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country. Extreme vetting policies would logically accompany these stringent immigration goals.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,security,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Steve Zurier
Source Date: 11/16/2016
Source Name: Dark Reading
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

New survey finds that consumers are overwhelmed by the need to protect their devices from cybercriminals. First it was online-information overload. Now it’s security overload. A new survey released today by Symantec found that while 79% of consumers know they must actively protect their information online, 44% felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of data they are now responsible for protecting.

Date: 12/10/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: David Shaw
Source Date: 11/12/2016
Source Name: The Good Men Project
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

If you are having some strong dis-ease following the Presidential Election in the USA, you might want to think some more about what I am suggesting. Don’t read another article about the Election. For that matter don’t listen or watch anything related to the Election either. For goodness sake don’t write anything about the Election at all. That suggestion should be the easiest for you to follow, because I am writing this for you.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Europe,Information Overload,politics,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Reinout van der Veer
Source Date: 11/2/2016
Source Name: EurActiv
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

EU politicians backing CETA are publicly fretting the way in which those opposing CETA disregard the ‘facts and evidence’ on the benefits of the landmark trade agreement between the EU and Canada. After signing the agreement, President of the European Council Donald Tusk, said “post-factual reality and post-truth politics pose a great challenge on both sides of the Atlantic”. Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was ‘vexed’ over accusations that CETA would lower labour standards, amongst other issues.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,jobs,work
Source Author: Lindsey Kaufman
Source Date: 12/30/2014
Source Name: The Washington Post
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A year ago, my boss announced that our large New York ad agency would be moving to an open office. After nine years as a senior writer, I was forced to trade in my private office for a seat at a long, shared table. It felt like my boss had ripped off my clothes and left me standing in my skivvies.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,mindfulness
Source Author:
Source Date: 2/10/2016
Source Name: WNYC.org
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

More than 25,000 people signed up for Infomagical, our project designed to make information overload disappear. Using either email or text messages, we issued five challenges to participants over five days – single-tasking, tidying our phones, avoiding meaningless memes, delving deeper into conversations, and setting a larger “rule” or “mantra” for information consumption. Texters got reminders through the day and check-ins at night.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,Tools
Source Author: Cheryl Rosen
Source Date: 10/26/2016
Source Name: Travel Market Report
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

It was a trifecta of positive news stories for travel agents over the weekend, as three consumer media outlets ran articles suggesting that travelers are well-advised to use a professional travel agent. The Boston Globe’s “There’s A Travel Agent For That” led off with a testimonial noting that “in a time of information overload and complexity, travel advisors can save you time, money, and aggravation, and provide first-hand insight into destinations around the world.”

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Mark Heller
Source Date: 10/27/2016
Source Name: GCU Today
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Ears were perked and business cards were dealt out like cards as a few hundred entrepreneurs and family business owners gathered Wednesday at Grand Canyon University Arena for the Thrive Family Business Conference. Hosted by Intentional Living Center president, author and radio personality Dr. Randy Carlson, Wednesday’s daylong presentation featured a half-dozen speakers, more than a dozen video presentations, guest panels and interactive Q-and-A sessions with successful family business entrepreneurs of faith.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,mindfulness
Source Author:
Source Date: 1/25/2016
Source Name: wnyc.org
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Here at Note to Self, we endorse using technology mindfully, thoughtfully, and not necessarily all the time. That said, we’re more concerned with another sentiment you probably know all too well: the “yeah, putting down my phone is nice and all, but I have a life to live. A job to do. A conversation to hold. A cat video to send to my mother.”

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Tanner Mirrlees
Source Date: 11/2/2016
Source Name: DurhamRegion.com
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I am probably suffering from “information overload.” Maybe you are too. In 2016, 6,000 feature films were made and 400 new TV series were broadcast on prime time. In one day, a single major new firm publishes anywhere between 200 and 500 stories. In just over half of one day — Friday Oct. 28, 2016 for example — there were more than 1 billion websites, 133 billion e-mails sent, almost 3 billion Google searches, 2.6 billion blog posts, 275 million Tweets, 37.9 million Instagram photos uploaded, 59.4 Tumblr posts and 117 million Skype calls. Each minute, 32 million Facebook messages are sent and more than 500 hours of video get uploaded to YouTube.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology
Source Author: Lenore Kerrigan
Source Date: 11/3/2016
Source Name: Biz Community
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Never before has there been so much information available to businesses and individuals. In January 2015, Google estimated that there were 300 exabytes (that’s 300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world. In 2011, there were just 30 exabytes. In just 48 months, the amount of human-made information increased by 1000% and we are now at a point whereby more information has been created in the past few years than in all of human history before.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology
Source Author:
Source Date: 11/1/2016
Source Name: Construction Week Online
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Information overload is increasingly becoming a problem both in the workplace and in everyday life. More data does not give you more power – it simply gives you more information. Being swamped with information or data without being in possession of the time or knowledge needed to sort out the worthless from the useful can be the rough equivalent of having no information at all. The result is either that you either delay making decisions, or that you make the wrong decisions. So exactly how much information or data do you need?

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Tess Sulaman
Source Date: 11/4/2016
Source Name: Biz Community
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

People are an organisation’s most important asset. This is the mantra that has been preached to us for the last few decades. It is not wrong, it’s just not entirely accurate. Productive employees are a company’s most important asset. What use is a colleague who spends half their working day updating their social media status?

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,politics,Technology,Tools
Source Author: David brooks
Source Date: 10/7/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Over the past generation there seems to have been a decline in the number of high-quality friendships. In 1985, most Americans told pollsters that they had about three confidants, people with whom they could share everything. Today, the majority of people say they have about two. In 1985, 10 percent of Americans said they had no one to fully confide in, but by the start of this century 25 percent of Americans said that.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Haim Senior
Source Date: 10/26/2016
Source Name: Quartz
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The age of notification overload is upon us. The more apps we download on our phones and open on our computers, the more little red flags crop up to remind us of all the information we’re not consuming and things we should be doing. Whereas your phone used to only chime when a loved one was sending you a message, it’s now going off all day, every day: local news, incoming thunderstorms, new lover matches, amber alerts, incoming emails, social media likes, erroneous messages from newspapers. As more and more of these notifications pop up on our phones and desktops, it has allowed us to keep connected to the world 24/7—whether we like it or not.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Noreen Seebacher and Dom Nicastro
Source Date: 10/26/2016
Source Name: CMS Wire
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM and San Francisco-based Slack today announced a partnership that combines Slack’s digital workplace with he cognitive computing capabilities of Watson. The goal is to use Watson’s artificial intelligence (AI) learning engine to power offerings such as bots and other conversational inferences to improve the Slack user experience.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Dan Clark
Source Date: 10/25/2016
Source Name: Wall Street Journal
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

LAGUNA Beach, Calif.—IPads were one of the worst things to happen to boards of big public companies, a factor in a trend toward information overload that has tended to tip the balance of power toward management, investor Nelson Peltz said Tuesday at WSJDLive, The Wall Street Journal’s global tech conference.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Matt Poe
Source Date: 10/27/2016
Source Name: American Laundry News
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

CHICAGO — Halifax Linen Service Inc. provides laundry services for major medical facilities and large corporations, as well as small businesses, throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and surrounding areas. That’s a lot of linen to take in, process and get back to the customers, and Preston McElheney, president of Halifax Linen, says the company is committed to supplying the products necessary to meet or exceed the industry standards expected in today’s professional business environments.

Date: 11/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,theater
Source Author: Chris Omaweng
Source Date: 10/27/2016
Source Name: London Theatre 1
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

It’s the inclusion of the spoken word in Fractus V that sets it firmly in the ‘contemporary’ dance productions camp, as opposed to ‘classical’. That, and the sound effects, so potent and vivid, simply don’t exist in classical dance, where even a hand clap is frowned upon, and the only sound created emanates from the orchestra. Here, the use of a live band on movable sets meant the musicians were very much a part of the on-stage action as the dancers, and one scene even brought the roaming sets of Jersey Boys to mind, with the band positioned centre stage as opposed to their typical stations on the periphery.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags:
Source Author: Stevie Knight
Source Date: 10/4/2016
Source Name: Maritime Journal
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Retrieving information is becoming like finding a needle in a haystack – during a hay delivery. It’s an issue for harbour authorities because bathymetry, soil analysis, siltation data is really expensive. However, there may now be an answer. If a port doesn’t actually get a grip on the information that it’s generating from surveys, site investigations and so on, any potential benefit will just slide out of its grasp said Michael Boniface of the IT Innovation Centre, a partner of the EU Exposures project.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: dating,Facebook,Information Overload,internet,Social Networks
Source Author: Sheena Sharma
Source Date: 10/3/2016
Source Name: Elite Daily
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I know it’s tempting, but maybe don’t Facebook friend request that new guy you’re dating. The Journal of Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking recently published a study that suggests connecting on social media too early can negatively affect a person’s view of his or her SO.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: clocks,Information Overload,Technology,time management,Tools
Source Author: Ido Lechner
Source Date: 9/23/2016
Source Name: PSFK.com
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

At first ‘glance,’ this clock is disguised as an analog timekeeper—but the connected device is capable of far greater feats, sending users push notifications throughout the day such as meeting reminders, fitness tracking, UBER alerts, traffic calculations, Google Calendar events from your mailbox, weather updates, high priority occasions and so forth. The face of the Glance Clock springs to life with colorful visuals when presenting a notification, and it can even sync with smart home products such as Amazon’s Alexa.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: families,Information Overload,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 9/23/2016
Source Name: Messenger
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

SALE Moor mum-of-two, Helen Calvert, has teamed up with other mothers and healthcare professionals, to help new parents navigate the first weeks and months of their parenting journey. The Growing Families conference in Manchester City Centre on October 6 is the first of its kind in the UK. It aims to tackle the mountain of postnatal information available and present evidence-based ideas in an accessible way, allowing parents to make informed choices that are right for their families.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email,Information Overload,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Drew Temple
Source Date: 10/20/2016
Source Name: The Journal
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

“It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.” — Nelson Mandela At a recent West Virginia University Academic Media Day, Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, an assistant professor with the department of communication studies, presented research regarding social media and its effect on the 2016 presidential campaign season.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: age,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Margaret Coates
Source Date: 10/14/2016
Source Name: North Shore News
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Have you ever thought or said, “That service is the best kept secret on the North Shore?” Are you looking for a service for your parent or yourself but are confused about where to start? Access to information for seniors is crucial. Informed seniors are healthier, more involved in their communities and are knowledgeable about available services and benefits important in maintaining their independence. Knowing what your benefits are after you retire ensures you receive the most income from government sources. Knowing if you qualify for home support for personal care, home care nursing or rehab, palliative care, day programs for adults or respite for caregivers can ensure you receive the critical care you might require as your health needs change.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: brain,Information Overload,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Amanda Porter
Source Date: 10/19/2016
Source Name: Trendin Tech
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The internet can be an excellent, helpful tool, but is it killing our brains and training them not to think for themselves but to rely on a machine to find the answer? People use the internet for a variety of uses. Some use it for online shopping; others may use it to read the news; while others may use it for fun and access social media or gambling websites. The point is, whatever anyone wants, they can usually get it in one form or another on the internet. But, is this reliance on technology making us less likely to try and think for ourselves when looking to solve a problem, rather than just hop online?

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Ralph Coker
Source Date: 10/4/2016
Source Name: Caller Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Q: How do I make sense out of the massive information I receive? A: Human behavior researchers find people’s decisions get better as they receive more relevant information. However, with information overload, their brain reaches a breaking point. They ignore options, make bad choices or stop interacting with the information. Researchers call it information blindness. Humans are good at absorbing information if they can break it into a series of smaller pieces and put them into file folders. That’s called winnowing, and it turns information into knowledge. To overcome information blindness, force yourself to work with the data. Ask questions about it or sort it by topic or category. The key thing is to perform some kind of operation on it.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 10/6/2016
Source Name: Black Enterprise
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

According to Apple CEO, Tim Cook, gaming is the most popular category in the App Store with over half a million games to choose from. A single video game can generate billions of dollars, and be consumed globally on computers, mobile devices, and consoles leading to more opportunities for content exposure.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Tools
Source Author: Daniel Schwarz
Source Date: 9/6/2016
Source Name: SitePoint
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Information overload is when your brain exceeds its processing capacity and leaves you feeling tired (like when your computer runs out of RAM and your computer crashes). It can also weaken your concentration, leaving you more susceptible to making bad decisions, and as a result, more likely to overload yourself from other sources of information as a means of procrastinating on important tasks. Yep, that’s right, I’m talking about television, the internet, checking emails, watching videos, and anything else that feeds you with information.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Art,Information Overload,Science,Tools
Source Author: Roland Meerdter
Source Date: 9/8/2016
Source Name: CityWire Selector
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The greatest threat to the future role of professional fund investors is not robots or regulators; it is information overload. There are tens of thousands of unique funds available for investment. Each of those funds has thousands of points of information to be collected and analysed – both quantitative and qualitative. That’s a lot of information and, to complicate matters further, much of it is constantly changing.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,plays,theater,Tools
Source Author: Mariana Swain
Source Date: 9/9/2016
Source Name: Hackney Gazette
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Michael Longhurst’s production of Adam Brace’s play is a strikingly staged commentary on liberal guilt and cultural colonialism Post-colonial turmoil, rival militias, and a fought-over mineral key to mobile phones and computers: just some of the complex problems in the Congo tackled by Adam Brace’s educational if sprawling three-hour play

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 9/14/2016
Source Name: Yorkshire Post
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

How much I identified with Jayne Dowle’s problems with mobile phones (The Yorkshire Post, September 12). She made me laugh out loud. I felt, as a 76-year-old grandmother, that I ought to get to grips with a smartphone to keep in touch with the family, including five teenage grandchildren who are spread far and wide, including America.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,mental
Source Author: Eric Ravenscraft
Source Date: 9/12/2016
Source Name: LifeHacker
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

There’s no denying that the information age has been beneficial, making it easy to learn about nearly any topic quickly. However, that information overload comes at a cognitive cost. If you force yourself to process to much information, you can slip into what’s known as a “mental fog.”

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,mobile devices,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Allan Murphy
Source Date: 9/9/2016
Source Name: Greenwich Sentinel
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

There is little doubt that we live in the information age. I’m sure that, like me, everyone is bombarded by information hourly, daily, and weekly—our mobile devices deliver a constant stream, and for some of us old school folks there are also daily newspapers, weekly news summaries, and in my world of commercial real estate, an endless supply of market reports, macro-trend white papers, and other real estate related research and economic news.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools,video games
Source Author: James Cunningham
Source Date: 9/17/2016
Source Name: HardCoreGamer
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The Boston Festival of Indie Games was only a one day event, but it was packed with so much content that it’s taken three days to go through it all. Games ranged in scope from near-AAA to student project, all running side-by-side and getting equal attention from the convention visitors. This trilogy of features covers what I played in my six hours on the show floor, but that was only a slice of everything available. I wish I’d had time to hit Mendel but it was always busy when I walked by, and Barricade looked interesting but the show wrapped up before I got to it. Basically, don’t take this as the highlights of the show but rather a cross-section. So for Part 3, much like Part 1 and Part 2, here’s the final batch of games presented in no particular order barring the final entry, which is the one I cast my ballot for as show favorite.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: analytics,business,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 9/22/2016
Source Name: Finextra
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Almax debuted in January 2016 as an Innovative Company to Watch by KPMG Luxembourg and quickly built demand and investor interest, thereby closing the seed round April 2016 to develop this first to market technology. “We are excited to present our product to the market and have worked hard to deliver this technology,” says Balazs Klemm, Chief Executive and Founder. “On behalf of the company I need to thank our loyal supporters and the Almax team for their commitment and patience. We look forward to growing the business and already engaged in Series A financing discussions.”

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,growth,Information Overload,lies,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 9/22/2016
Source Name: CBC Radio
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Daniel Levitin worries about our tendency to believe the media. Or rather, our unchecked and uncritical consumption of it. Gone are the days of the newspaper of record and journalists acting as authenticity gatekeepers. In it’s place are tabloids that value immediacy over accuracy.

Date: 10/24/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,relaxation,Technology
Source Author:
Source Date: 9/19/2016
Source Name: Poynter
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Information overload, often resulting in infomania, is a very real thing. As journalists, it can seem impossible to keep on top of all the news, email, messages and other sources that keep us informed. That’s because, more often than not, it is impossible. It might seem counterintuitive to discuss the topic of information overload as part of a project where we’re asking you to watch videos, check out resources, participate in Q&As and complete daily challenges, but bear with us. One of the biggest keys to combating information overload is mastering the art of single-tasking, a concept that Manoush Zomorodi explains in today’s video.

Date: 10/21/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology
Source Author: Adele Bloem
Source Date: 10/19/2016
Source Name: Roodepoort
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The world is constantly buzzing around us, filling our ears with noise. From the ding of your phone announcing the arrival of a text message to the alert to advise you of the arrival of another piece of important information, we are surrounded by ringing phones, televisions chirping out advertisements and admonishments, and the endless droning of the radio. And more often than not, the massive amount of information received has a negative impact on our happiness and productivity.

Date: 10/21/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Paul Linford
Source Date: 10/17/2016
Source Name: HoldTheFrontPage
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The editor of Carlisle’s daily paper has said his newsroom faced “information overload” from social media in the wake of the December 2015 floods which hit the city. David Helliwell, editor of the News & Star and group editorial director of the CN Group, described how his papers handled the deluge at the Society of Editors conference in Carlisle today. He said one of the key challenges for his team was sifting the accurate from the inaccurate information arising from the thousands of social media posts on the disaster.

Date: 10/21/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information,Information Overload,knowledge worker
Source Author: Margaret Coates
Source Date: 10/14/2016
Source Name: North Shore News
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Have you ever thought or said, “That service is the best kept secret on the North Shore?” Are you looking for a service for your parent or yourself but are confused about where to start? Access to information for seniors is crucial. Informed seniors are healthier, more involved in their communities and are knowledgeable about available services and benefits important in maintaining their independence. Knowing what your benefits are after you retire ensures you receive the most income from government sources. Knowing if you qualify for home support for personal care, home care nursing or rehab, palliative care, day programs for adults or respite for caregivers can ensure you receive the critical care you might require as your health needs change.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: athletes,Information Overload,sports
Source Author: Nicole Chia
Source Date: 10/8/2016
Source Name: StraitsTimes
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

When sports science consultant Tim Gabbett started his career about 20 years ago, he diligently tracked the performance of football and rugby players during matches using pen and paper, and later, through video playback. “I’d go back to my office, and for every 10 minutes of game time, it would take 30 minutes to analyse one player – that’s about 41/2 hours per player,” he recalled.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags:
Source Author:
Source Date: 10/10/2016
Source Name: Realnoevremya
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A big event took place in Kazan — the Congress of the Russian society of teachers of Russian language and Literature. It is important not only for teachers but for everyone who follows developments regarding the school programs in Literature. For example, I follow and wanted to go. But I couldn’t, as it turned out that the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov arrived at the event and media accreditation for the event became complicated. From our TV channel, only a news group was allowed, leaving me a role of a so-called ‘couch-based analyst’.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,marketplace,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Gary Truitt
Source Date: 10/9/2016
Source Name: Hoosier AG Today
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

When it comes to information about food, there is no shortage of information. A trip through a modern grocery store is an adventure in information overload. Even a trip to a farmers’ market will assault your senses with more information then you may really want or can process. The problem is there is no way to filter out the legitimate information from the hogwash. While some food products attempt to present factual information useful to consumers, others simply try and baffle us with BS.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: childbirth,Information Overload,pregnancy,Tools,women
Source Author: Ryen Veldhuis
Source Date: 10/13/2016
Source Name: Bay Today
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Raising a child can be a daunting task for new parents, especially considering the pressure of how formative those early years can be. For Heidi Madsen, helping to ensure the blossoming of children was her goal when she conceived her business, Blossom Early Learning, which opened this week. “As a baby grows and develops, they do so really quickly and it’s hard to keep up with all the different stages and weed through all the information out there,” Madsen said. “So I make it really easy, by breaking ages into different groups, to let you know what your child is capable of doing at that age.”

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: elections,Information Overload,politics,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 10/14/2016
Source Name: The Daily Evergreen
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

With the 2016 presidential election on the horizon, media literacy has never been more important. The American people are receiving reports at high speeds on every detail and scandal of the campaign, and today’s media consumers must be extremely critical of everything they read. Bruce Pinkleton, the interim dean of the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, has researched media literacy, particularly the effects of advertisements on American youth.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Industry,Information Overload,Technology,Tools,work
Source Author: David Brooks
Source Date: 9/20/2016
Source Name: The New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A few weeks ago I met a guy in Kentucky who’d lived through every trend of deindustrializing America. He grew up about 65 years ago on a tobacco and cattle farm, but he always liked engines, so even while in high school he worked 40 hours a week in a garage. Then he went to work in a series of factories — making airplane parts, car seats, sheet metal and casings for those big air-conditioning fans you see on the top of buildings.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology,theater,Twitter
Source Author: Charles Isherwood
Source Date: 9/21/2016
Source Name: The New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

It’s often said that we live in an era that prizes speed and brevity above all else. There’s long been fast food, but now there’s fast fashion, too. Why take the time to phone someone when an email will take less of your time? Why send an email when a text message would be quicker? For that matter, why take the time to type the words “I know, right?” or “Just kidding” when you can just type “IKR?” and “JK”?

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: automobiles,cellphones,Driving,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Matt Richel
Source Date: 9/24/2016
Source Name: The New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The court filings paint a grisly picture: As Ashley Kubiak sped down a Texas highway in her Dodge Ram truck, she checked her iPhone for messages. Distracted, she crashed into a sport utility vehicle, killing its driver and a passenger and leaving a child paralyzed. With driving fatalities rising at levels not seen in 50 years, the growing incidence of distracted driving is getting part of the blame. Now a lawsuit related to that 2013 Texas crash is raising a question: Does Apple — or any cellphone maker or wireless company — have a responsibility to prevent devices from being used by drivers in illegal and dangerous ways?

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology,telephone,Tools
Source Author: Andrew Sullivan
Source Date: 9/18/2016
Source Name: NY Mag
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I was sitting in a large meditation hall in a converted novitiate in central Massachusetts when I reached into my pocket for my iPhone. A woman in the front of the room gamely held a basket in front of her, beaming beneficently, like a priest with a collection plate. I duly surrendered my little device, only to feel a sudden pang of panic on my way back to my seat. If it hadn’t been for everyone staring at me, I might have turned around immediately and asked for it back. But I didn’t. I knew why I’d come here.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: dinner,Information Overload,interactions,Social Networks,Technology
Source Author: KRISTEN BERMAN and DAN ARIELY
Source Date: 9/21/2016
Source Name: Wired
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

What is your relationship with God? What is something you fear in life? These may be great topics for conversations, but we rarely tackle such meaty topics at social gatherings. Instead, our discussions usually centre around summer travel plans, the latest home repair horror story and, of course, the weather.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: computing,Email,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 3/13/2016
Source Name: Motherboard
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

We love to complain about the amount of email we receive, and maybe the problem is that it’s just too easy to send an email now—a few taps on a smartphone is all it takes. But back in 1984, it required some serious dedication. This local TV relic from the UK shows just how much more complicated it was to send an email thirty-two years ago, using the Prestel system.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 9/22/2016
Source Name: Finextra
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Almax Analytics, a software platform delivering actionable insights, announced today they have emerged from stealth (development) with a customer ready product for the Financial Markets. Almax debuted in January 2016 as an Innovative Company to Watch by KPMG Luxembourg and quickly built demand and investor interest, thereby closing the seed round April 2016 to develop this first to market technology.

Date: 10/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Daniel Schwarz
Source Date: 9/6/2016
Source Name: Site Point
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Information overload is when your brain exceeds its processing capacity and leaves you feeling tired (like when your computer runs out of RAM and your computer crashes). It can also weaken your concentration, leaving you more susceptible to making bad decisions, and as a result, more likely to overload yourself from other sources of information as a means of procrastinating on important tasks. Yep, that’s right, I’m talking about television, the internet, checking emails, watching videos, and anything else that feeds you with information.

Date: 10/14/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Victoria McKeever
Source Date: 10/11/2016
Source Name: Professional Observer
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) today issued a feedback statement to last year’s ‘Smarter Consumer Communications’ discussion paper, acknowledging the need to be more flexible in both what and how financial services businesses communicate to consumers.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: love,relationships,Technology,telephone
Source Author: Jan Hill
Source Date: 3/23/2016
Source Name: Your Tango
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Ladies and gentlemen, put the smartphone DOWN. Do we really need research to validate the complete anger and disrespect we all feel when someone we’re dating, a friend, or a new acquaintance reaches into their pocket, pulls out their cell phone and responds to someone else’s text, while we’re mid-sentence in conversation with them?

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: computing,data,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Yuval Noah Harari
Source Date: 8/26/2016
Source Name: Financial Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

For thousands of years humans believed that authority came from the gods. Then, during the modern era, humanism gradually shifted authority from deities to people. Jean-Jacques Rousseau summed up this revolution in Emile, his 1762 treatise on education. When looking for the rules of conduct in life, Rousseau found them “in the depths of my heart, traced by nature in characters which nothing can efface. I need only consult myself with regard to what I wish to do; what I feel to be good is good, what I feel to be bad is bad.” Humanist thinkers such as Rousseau convinced us that our own feelings and desires were the ultimate source of meaning, and that our free will was, therefore, the highest authority of all.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: book,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Erin Blakemore
Source Date: 9/2/2016
Source Name: Smithsonian
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

When’s the last time you read a book? If you’re like 27 percent of Americans, that question might be a headscratcher. That’s because just over one in four Americans surveyed in a new poll said that they didn’t read a single book within the last 12 months. The survey of American readers contains a few dismaying statistics—and a few surprises about the popularity of books and reading in an increasingly digital world.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,news,Technology
Source Author: Jim Rutenberg
Source Date: 9/4/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

One day many decades hence, when your grandchildren ask you, “Grandma, what was a newspaper?” you can direct them back to Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016. Because it may well go down as the day the American newspaper as we’ve known it moved out of intensive care and into the palliative wing on its way to the Great Beyond.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,office
Source Author: Rebecca Greenfield
Source Date: 8/1/2106
Source Name: Bloomberg
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The open office plan that everybody loves to hate is here to stay. The ideal seating plan still involves sitting almost on top of your co-workers, according to new research from Harvard Business School in collaboration with Cornerstone OnDemand. What changes, however, is who exactly sits next to whom.

For two years, researchers followed the seating arrangements and output of 2,000 workers at an unidentified technology company, measuring the proximity and productivity of the participants by looking at how quickly they completed tasks. The denser an area is with productive people, the better it was for a nearby worker’s productivity, effectiveness, and quality of work, the research found.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: book,Information Overload,Tools
Source Author: Daniel Victor
Source Date: 9/2/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Even with Facebook, Netflix and other digital distractions increasingly vying for time, Americans’ appetite for reading books — the ones you actually hold in your hands — has not slowed in recent years, according to a study by the Pew Research Center. Sixty-five percent of adults in the United States said they had read a printed book in the past year, the same percentage that said so in 2012. When you add in ebooks and audiobooks, the number that said they had read a book in printed or electronic format in the past 12 months rose to 73 percent, compared with 74 percent in 2012.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Nicholas Kardaras
Source Date: 8/27/2016
Source Name: New York Post
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Susan* bought her 6-year-old son John an iPad when he was in first grade. “I thought, ‘Why not let him get a jump on things?’ ” she told me during a therapy session. John’s school had begun using the devices with younger and younger grades — and his technology teacher had raved about their educational benefits — so Susan wanted to do what was best for her sandy-haired boy who loved reading and playing baseball.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,internet
Source Author: Michael Harris
Source Date: 8/21/2016
Source Name: Quartz
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Technology has a lot to answer for: killing old businesses, destroying the middle class, Buzzfeed. Technology in the form of the internet is especially villainous, having been accused of everything from making us dumber (paywall) to aiding dictatorships. But Michael Harris, riffing on the observations of Melvin Kranzberg, argues that “technology is neither good nor evil. The most we can say about it is this: It has come.”

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,elon musk,Information Overload,Technology,work
Source Author: Michael Simmons
Source Date: 8/11/2016
Source Name: The Mission
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

How is it even possible that Elon Musk could build four multibillion companies by his mid-40s — in four separate fields (software, energy, transportation, and aerospace)? To explain Musk’s success, others have pointed to his heroic work ethic (he regularly works 85-hour weeks), his ability to set reality-distorting visions for the future, and his incredible resilience.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Frank Bruni
Source Date: 7/29/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

There are several passages in the new book “Overloaded and Underprepared” that fill me with sadness for American high school students, the most driven of whom are forever in search of a competitive edge. Some use stimulants like Adderall. Some cheat. But the part of the book that somehow got to me most was about sleep. It’s a prerequisite for healthy growth. It’s a linchpin of sanity. Before adulthood, a baseline amount is fundamental and nonnegotiable, or should be.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,movies,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Manhola Dargis
Source Date: 8/25/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

If you have ever seen the 1931 film of “The Front Page,” based on the jauntily cynical play, you might have been startled by the moment when a wisecracking newspaperman silences his machine-gun-fast patter to raise his middle finger at the mayor and sheriff. Is this what the New York Times reviewer Mordaunt Hall was thinking of when he wrote that the film’s humor is “frequently harsh”? Probably not. That’s because in the version of “The Front Page” that New York papers likely reviewed back in 1931, that hack keeps his middle finger in check and instead mock-salutes the mayor and the sheriff. As it turns out, the film seen in the United States for decades isn’t the same version that American audiences guffawed through back in the day. The one that Michael Pogorzelski and Heather Linville took out of old film cans in 2014 was surprisingly different from the familiar one.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload
Source Author: Ian Sample
Source Date: 8/23/2016
Source Name: The Guardian
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

For Jules Verne it was the friend who keeps us waiting. For Edgar Allan Poe so many little slices of death. But though the reason we spend a third of our lives asleep has so far resisted scientific explanation, research into the impact of sleepless nights on brain function has shed fresh light on the mystery – and also offered intriguing clues to potential treatments for depression.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,telephone,Tools
Source Author: Delia Ephron
Source Date: 8/19/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I know it’s not a good idea to hate anyone. I know from an article I read that negative emotions are bad for my health. I would hate to have a heart attack because my internet isn’t working. But I do hate Verizon. I spent four hours on the phone with the company on a recent Saturday morning. I know for sure I was disconnected three times. Once I didn’t realize it and just hung around for 20 minutes expecting someone to come back on the line. One person promised me he wouldn’t disappear and even said, “Have I yet?” I said no, and then he disappeared.

Date: 9/16/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: handwriting,Information Overload,Tools
Source Author: Anne Trubek
Source Date: 8/20/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I thought politicians had enough to fight over. Apparently not: Legislatures around the country are now debating the future of cursive penmanship. When the Common Core standards were released in 2010, handwriting took a back seat to typing. Schools were told to ensure that all students could “demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills” by fourth grade, but they were required to teach students “basic features of print” only in kindergarten and first grade. Cursive was left out entirely.

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: automobiles,cellphones,Driving,Information Overload,Technology,texting,Tools
Source Author: Vivian Yee
Source Date: 8/17/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

MORRISTOWN, N.J. — Texting, we have all come to admit, is the enemy of road safety everywhere. Applying makeup behind the wheel: more or less universally frowned upon. Few would condone driving while reading a book, rooting around in the back seat or eating anything that involves utensils. In New Jersey, where suburban sprawl has elevated cars from mere possessions to four-wheeled appendages, and driving from an activity to a near-perpetual state of being, things are slightly more complicated.

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: app,dating,Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Rich Juzwiak
Source Date: 8/15/2016
Source Name: Gawker
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

I spent one Saturday morning late last year on my couch toggling back from Grindr to Scruff to Grindr to Scruff. I don’t remember what I was looking for; all I remember is that I was looking. At some point, I realized three hours had passed, and I still hadn’t moved from my couch or started my day. Even if I had, it undoubtedly would have been interrupted by a hook-up app, and/or a hook-up, though the latter was far less likely.

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Facebook,Information Overload,Instagram,photography,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Henry Alford
Source Date: 8/12/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Chief among my favorite Facebook memories is the time that a high-powered journalist of my acquaintance breezily informed us all that he was at the Grill Room of the Four Seasons with Ted Danson, tucking into some sea urchin. To which one friend responded, “That’s funny, because I’m at the Midtown tunnel with Rhea Perlman, eating shawarma.”

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,time management,Tools,work-life balance
Source Author: Richard J. Light
Source Date: 7/31/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Imagine you are Dean for a Day. What is one actionable change you would implement to enhance the college experience on campus? I have asked students this question for years. The answers can be eye-opening. A few years ago, the responses began to move away from “tweak the history course” or “change the ways labs are structured.” A different commentary, about learning to live wisely, has emerged.

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: book,Information Overload,Tools
Source Author: Grace Banks
Source Date: 8/9/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

What do literary tourists look for when they visit the British Isles? Often it’s the quaint, old-fashioned bookshops that provide the perfect excuse to browse uninterrupted and to disconnect from the world. Until recently, the trend for barista-made coffee and high-speed Wi-Fi was considered by some in the city’s bookish crowd to be ruining London’s centuries-old tradition of disconnected browsing.

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: book,business,Information Overload,libraries
Source Author: Michael Simmons
Source Date: 8/5/2016
Source Name: Observer
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In the article “Malcolm Gladwell Got Us Wrong,” the researchers behind the 10,000-Hour Rule set the record straight: Different fields require different amounts of deliberate practice in order for someone to become world-class. If 10,000 hours isn’t an absolute rule that applies across fields, what does it really take to become world class in the world of work?

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Email,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Rebecca Greenfield
Source Date: 7/27/2016
Source Name: Bloomberg
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Well, maybe not your life. But certainly your reputation with people of good taste. Helvetica, the hip font of choice for brands and typeface nerds, is the default font setting for Apple Mail. Gmail defaults to Arial, a font one designer called Helvetica’s “ugly bastard son.” If the browser doesn’t support Arial, Gmail will use Helvetica instead.

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: cellphones,Information Overload,restaurants,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Fiona MacDonald
Source Date: 8/4/2016
Source Name: Science Alert
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The owner of a cocktail bar in the UK has turned to physics in an attempt to force his customers to actually talk to other instead of just staring at social media all night. Steve Tyler, who owns the Gin Tub in East Sussex, has built his very own Faraday cage around the establishment to block mobile phone signals from entering the building.

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Facebook,Information Overload,Social Networks,Tools
Source Author: Mike Issac and Sydney Ember
Source Date: 8/4/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Facebook says it plans to marginalize what it considers to be “clickbait” news stories from publishers in its news feed, in another step to keep its 1.71 billion members regularly coming back to its social network. In a change to its news feed algorithm on Thursday, Facebook said certain types of headlines would be classified as clickbait, those that “withhold or distort information.” Those stories will then appear less frequently in users’ feeds, the company said.

Date: 8/31/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: children,Information,Information Overload,Science,Tools
Source Author: Allison Gopnik
Source Date: 8/30/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Parents and policy makers have become obsessed with getting young children to learn more, faster. But the picture of early learning that drives them is exactly the opposite of the one that emerges from developmental science. In the last 30 years, the United States has completed its transformation to an information economy. Knowledge is as important in the 21st century as capital was in the 19th, or land in the 18th. In the same 30 years, scientists have discovered that even very young children learn more than we once thought possible. Put those together and our preoccupation with making children learn is no surprise.

Date: 8/11/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: brain,Exercise,Information Overload,memory,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Gretchen Reynolds
Source Date: 7/28/2016
Source Name: The New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Learning requires more than the acquisition of unfamiliar knowledge; that new information or know-how, if it’s to be more than ephemeral, must be consolidated and securely stored in long-term memory.

Date: 8/3/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Brad Berens
Source Date: 7/28/2016
Source Name: Gear Brain
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

New gadgets help us to measure and manage what we do, empowering us to achieve new goals and push our limits. But there are sneaky downsides: these same gadgets burden us with new responsibilities, distractions and decisions to make.

Date: 8/3/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: distractions,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Bill Howett
Source Date: 7/26/2016
Source Name: The Globe and Mail
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Most employees are bombarded daily by information overload. Some feel like they simply cannot keep up with the amount of information coming at them. Technology has become a burden – a bad distraction – for many employees because it generates more information than can realistically be processed in the time allotted. One study found the average knowledge worker spends about 20 hours a week processing emails. This article introduces the micro skill of good distractions. Distraction refers to what a person consciously does in order to get a break from the demands of home and work. A good distraction creates a mental break that lets you charge your batteries.

Date: 8/3/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: David Wilson Rogers
Source Date: 7/23/2016
Source Name: Current-Argus
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

We are living in the greatest information age in all of human history. Unlike any other time in the history of humanity, a greater number of people have access to the greatest amount of information. One person with a cellphone and internet can access more information than can possibly be processed in a single human lifetime.

Date: 7/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Tools
Source Author: John Arendt
Source Date: 7/13/2016
Source Name: Summerland Review
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Some of the most significant, most influential writings of all time have been surprisingly short. The Magna Carta, signed in 1215, is less than 3,000 words or the equivalent of 12 typewritten pages in length. Martin Luther’s Ninety-five Theses, posted in 1517, is less than 2,700 words long, translated into English. That works out to 10 pages, typed and double-spaced.

Date: 7/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Tools
Source Author: Joseph Caderwall
Source Date: 7/22/2016
Source Name: Scoop
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Access to accurate, relevant and timely information is a crucial aspect of an open and transparent society. However, in our digital society information is in a state of flux with every aspect of its creation, delivery and consumption undergoing profound redefinition. The emergence of Web 2.0 and ‘peer-to-peer’ computing represents a new information revolution arguably as important as the invention of the printing press. Traditional information institutions, channels, roles and assumptions are being simultaneously disrupted and re-imagined, which presents very real dangers as well as exciting opportunities to create a more open and transparent society.

Date: 7/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags:
Source Author:
Source Date: 7/19/2016
Source Name: Augusta Free Press
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

“Information overload” is a term used by American futurist and author Alvin Toffler for the world we live in today. The author, who passed away recently, used the term to describe the state in which we get under the pressure of all the information dumped on us on a daily basis. Today, to find the information we need, we have to dig through layers of ads, click bait, and spam. Luckily, some media outlets are specialized enough to focus on the exact things their users need, offering them what they want to find without all the fuss and filling surrounding it.

Date: 7/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 7/21/2016
Source Name: Financial Post
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

North American markets look headed for a flat open today, ahead of a flood of earnings reports and economic data, including the European Central Bank’s first meeting since the Brexit vote. The European Central Bank kept its interest rates and forward guidance unchanged as expected on Thursday but will likely use a news conference now underway to address a growing list of obstacles that again threaten to derail its efforts to lift growth and inflation.

Date: 7/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,theater,Tools
Source Author: Louise Schweitzer
Source Date: 7/19/2016
Source Name: The Argus
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The title of this production derives from one play in Caryl Churchill’s original 50: two characters in bed together decide that love and sex are nothing more than mechanisms for passing on variant genetic information. This unappealing notion was reinforced by a series of dramatic episodes based around a modern obsession with electronic gadgetry – but the occasional bleakness of this theme was in sharp contrast to the creativity of the author and the slick exhilaration of the brilliant staging.

Date: 7/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Health,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Heather Landi
Source Date: 7/15/2016
Source Name: Healthcare Informatics
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A recent Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology report provided some intriguing thoughts about the pressure facing chief information security officers (CISOs) to keep their organizations secure and how they are combating information and vendor solution overload.

Date: 7/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Social Networks,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 7/20/2016
Source Name: The Conversation
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

A series of horrendous global events in the past few weeks have highlighted the use of Facebook Live to stream footage via smart phones, as they unfold. For the 1.5 billion Facebook subscribers, and other users on live streaming services Periscope and Meerkat, these video streams are the first drafts of history.

Date: 7/22/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Food,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Gonna Reed
Source Date: 7/21/2016
Source Name: Union of Concerned Scientists
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Back in May, UCS celebrated a huge victory for science-based policy and public health with the FDA’s unveiling of its revisions to the Nutrition Facts label. Among other changes, the rule will require companies to include a separate line for ‘Added Sugars’ and a percent daily value for it on food labels. As my colleague, Pallavi Phartiyal explains, it was not an easy road to victory, thanks to pushback from the powerful food industry since the rule was first proposed, and actually, since the earliest days of the Nutrition Facts label.

Date: 7/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author:
Source Date: 7/15/2016
Source Name: BizCommunity
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

As their attention spans grow shorter and their options expand, Afrillennials (African Millennials) are becoming much pickier about what they allow on their mobiles in their bid to curb information overload. The fatiguing effects of having to look at too many brand messages daily, leads the youth to take all measures to streamline their mobile interferences in order to make more time for experiences. Let’s take a look at the five critical mobile marketing pitfalls to avoid in terms of information overload.

Date: 7/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Ellen Huet
Source Date: 4/18/2016
Source Name: Bloomberg Technology
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Amy Ingram, the artificial intelligence personal assistant from startup X.ai, sounds remarkably like a real person. The company designed her to take on the mundane tasks of scheduling meetings and e-mailing about appointments. If a bot had access to your calendar and was cc-ed on correspondence, why couldn’t it do the work for you? After she made her debut in 2014, users praised her “humanlike tone” and “eloquent manners.” “Actually better than a human for this task,” a beta tester tweeted. But what most people don’t realize about this artificial intelligence is that it isn’t totally artificial: Behind almost every e-mail is an actual human—someone like 24-year-old Willie Calvin.

Date: 7/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,medicine,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Austin Frakt
Source Date: 7/11/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Before they see a doctor, most patients turn to websites and smartphone apps. Caution is advised. Research shows they aren’t very good. A few years ago, doctors from the Mayo Clinic tested the wisdom of online health advice. Their conclusion: It’s risky. According to their study, going online for health advice is more likely to result in getting no advice or incomplete advice than the right advice. The doctors assessed the quality of advice on the top sites returned from Google, Yahoo and Bing for searches on common health complaints — like “chest pain” or “headache.”

Date: 7/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jessica Bennett
Source Date: 7/8/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

There was the breadcrumb dropped on Valentine’s Day, by the ex-girlfriend of my friend. The two women hadn’t spoken in months, after a prolonged breakup, and the ex was now seeing somebody new. Yet there she was, on the day of Hallmark-themed romance, “liking” my friend’s Instagram photo … from three weeks ago. Which meant she had to have been scrolling through her feed.

Date: 7/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Hannah Seligson
Source Date: 4/21/2014
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

In 2010, when Rebecca Soffer’s father died of a heart attack on a cruise to the Bahamas, the condolence notes came pouring in, many in the form of text messages. “I got so many from very good friends,” Ms. Soffer, 37, said from the couch of her Upper West Side apartment not long ago. “They said they were ‘sorry’ or ‘how r u?’ ”

Date: 7/18/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Matt Silverman
Source Date: 6/30/2016
Source Name: Mashable
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

The web-based email, chat and message boards that came online in the ’90s were poised to revolutionize interpersonal communication. Then companies tried to monetize the Internet. “The dot com boom failed because people didn’t want to buy shit online. They were just talking to each other,” said Douglas Rushkoff in a recent keynote speech at the WebVisions conference in Portland. “Content was never king. Contact was always king.” Today, the dorm room experiments of the digital generation have become billion dollar corporations. We’ve finally figured out how to monetize social interaction, and Rushkoff, an award-winning author and media theorist who writes and speaks regularly on these topics, has reservations.

Date: 7/8/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: America,gadgets,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Shelly Palmer
Source Date: 7/3/2016
Source Name: ShellyPalmer.com
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Back, by popular demand, a reprise of my 7 Hottest Tech Trends of 1776 plus one. Enjoy! A little more than 240 years ago, our forefathers used the best technology available to inspire colonial proto-Americans to revolt against King George. At that time, the “best” technology available was the printing press and the “best” social network required the use of “word of mouth” in Public Houses. Grog was the lubricant that facilitated this communication and the rest, as they say, is history.

Date: 7/8/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: death,Information Overload,work-life balance
Source Author: John Pavlovitz
Source Date: 2/29/2016
Source Name: Johnpavlovitz.com
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

On the die I day a lot will happen. A lot will change. The world will be busy. On the day I die, all the important appointments I made will be left unattended. The many plans I had yet to complete will remain forever undone. The calendar that ruled so many of my days will now be irrelevant to me. All the material things I so chased and guarded and treasured will be left in the hands of others to care for or to discard.

Date: 7/8/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jane E. Brody
Source Date: 5/30/2016
Source Name: New York Times
Source URL: Link to Source Article or Site

Joanne Reitano is a professor of history at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens. She writes wonderful books about the history of the city and state, and has recently been spending many hours — sometimes all day — at her computer to revise her first book, “The Restless City.” But while sitting in front of the screen, she told me, “I developed burning in my eyes that made it very difficult to work.”

Date: 7/8/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Jeff Stephens
Source Date: 7/5/2016
Source Name: Entrepreneur
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Have you ever heard the phrase, “drinking from a fire hose?” Well, that’s what it’s like when you are a brand new entrepreneur. Not only are you inundated with information and how-to’s, but you are also overwhelmed with everything you want to get done. On top of that, you have to keep up with all of the latest tools and hot social media platforms. If you are not careful you will end up burnt out or simply drowning in the daily deluge of information.

Date: 7/8/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: business,Information Overload,internet,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Josh Nicholas
Source Date: 7/7/2016
Source Name: Business Insider Australia
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The internet has upended the economics of business. Infinite “shelf space” for goods, new kinds of distribution for digital content, accurate mapping and ubiquitous computing, have drastically lowered the barriers to entry. Even small players now can offer a selection way beyond the dreams of any pre-internet business. As a result, barring some exceptions, the world is becoming less winner take all. There’s room now for a 10th, 20th and even 50th best product – we can cater for everyone and every taste.

Date: 7/8/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,Technology,Tools
Source Author: Madalina Ciobanu
Source Date: 7/4/2016
Source Name: Journalism.co.uk
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Do you ever feel overwhelmed by the amount of information available online, in all its forms, demanding your attention on all your devices? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. Luckily, there are some useful tricks to help you shake that feeling of missing out on important news or topics of discussion.

Date: 7/8/2016
Category: Online Publication
Tags: Information Overload,politics,Technology
Source Author: Melanie Waddell
Source Date: 7/7/2016
Source Name: Think Advisor
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., blasted the Securities and Exchange Commission’s disclosure effectiveness initiative, saying it was “ill-conceived” and could limit public companies’ disclosure requirements “in ways that would harm investors.”