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	Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload URL: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ca/xml/00/01/10/000110caoverload.html ODP description: Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it. Page title: Overcoming information overload Page description: SO YOU START A typical workday and wade through 75 to 100 e-mail messages. Or perhaps more.
	Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects URL: http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CHINNEG.html ODP description: Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain. Page title: Change and Information Overload: negative effects
	Informing Ourselves to Death URL: http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper ODP description: A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
	Information Overload Annotated Webliography URL: http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml ODP description: A collection of links about Information Overload. Page title: Nikolai Bezroukov. Softpanorama Information/Work Overload Annotated Webliography
	We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload URL: http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html ODP description: Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy. Page title: We Have the Information You Want, But Getting It Will Cost You: Being Held Hostage by Information Overload
	Spinning Around URL: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515705.html ODP description: Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald] Page title: Spinning around - smh.com.au
	NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom URL: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE5DD173EF935A25753C1A9659C8B63 ODP description: Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents. Page title: Digging For Nuggets Of Wisdom - New York Times
	Managing information URL: http://www.managing-information.org.uk/ ODP description: Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed. Page title: Managing information - a practical guide Page description: A short guide to help users manage their information requirements
	Managing Information: Infoglut URL: http://www.informationweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm ODP description: New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
	eCFO - Fighting Information Overload URL: http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3002204 ODP description: Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data. Page title: Fighting Information Overload - Technology - CFO.com Page description: Knowledge management software helps you find the most relevant, most useful data.
	The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload URL: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/research/PAPER200.pdf ODP description: This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organisation. (Acrobat File).
	How Much Information URL: http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/ ODP description: An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.] Page title: About the Project
	The Register - Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/15/data_dyspepsia_blights_the_workforce/ ODP description: Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis. Page title: Data dyspepsia blights the workforce \| The Register
	Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch URL: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_11/hermans/index.html ODP description: 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.
	Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer URL: http://www.fno.org/mar97/deep.html ODP description: Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning, research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate this new information landscape. Page title: Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an Age of Info-Glut, Info-Garbage and Info-Tactics
	Information Overload - An IR problem? URL: http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/spire/1998/8664/00/8664toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/SPIRE.1998.712984 ODP description: 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. Page title: Information Overload--An IR Problem? Page description: Information overload on the World-Wide Web (WWW) is a well recognised problem. Research to subdue this problem and extract maximum benefit from the Internet is still in its infancy. With huge amounts of information connected to the Internet, efficient and effective discovery of resource and knowledge has become an imminent research issue. A vast array of networks services is growing up around the Internet and massive amounts of information ...
	Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload URL: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs125a/content/agentsmaes.doc ODP description: Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.