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Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload - http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs125a/content/agentsmaes.doc
Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.

Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects - http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CHINNEG.html
Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.

Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer - http://www.fno.org/mar97/deep.html
Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning, research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate this new information landscape.

Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_11/hermans/index.html
Looks at a number of solutions, including "agency," agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and information brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the online marketplace. By Bjorn Hermans.

eCFO - Fighting Information Overload - http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3002204
Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.

How Much Information - http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/
An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]

Information Overload - An IR problem? - http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/spire/1998/8664/00/8664toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/SPIRE.1998.712984
An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium. A downloadable copy of the entire study is available in .PDF format.

Information Overload Annotated Webliography - http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml
A collection of links about Information Overload.

Informing Ourselves to Death - http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper
A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.

Managing information - http://www.managing-information.org.uk/
Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.

Managing Information: Infoglut - http://www.informationweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm
New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.

NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE5DD173EF935A25753C1A9659C8B63
Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents.

Spinning Around - http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515705.html
Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]

The Register - Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/15/data_dyspepsia_blights_the_workforce/
Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis.

The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload - http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=653682
This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organisation.

We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html
Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.

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