Information Overload - An IR problem? - An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium. A downloadable copy of the entire study is available in .PDF format.
NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom - Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents.
Spinning Around - Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]
How Much Information - An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects - Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.
Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch - Looks at a number of solutions, including "agency," agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and information brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the online marketplace. By Bjorn Hermans.
