Yesterday I stumbled upon the interesting new service Filtrbox which also aims to help users to deal with information overload in a better way.
If you are using Google News Alerts, you know that you can make google send you only news articles that contain certain keywords, and also exclude articles using a minus in front […]

Is this a joke? Surprisingly, it’s not.
At first thought it seems to be an unbreakable rule that in order to expand our knowledge, we need to take in (”consume”) new information. Unfortunately, finding relevant information and consuming it takes time and effort - especially in today’s world of information overload this can be quite tedious.
Wouldn’t […]

Kevin Rose started out with a mere $200 funding. Within 18 months, his internet application Digg has become one of the most visited technology media sites and made it into the top 1,000 sites on the net. As a result, estimation of Digg’s current market value go high, reaching $300 milllion and more.
The reason for […]

Information Overload is an interesting phenomenon. Everybody knows it’s a major obstacle to productivity but if you ask people you’ll find out that not many are thinking on how they can deal with it in a systematic way.
For instance, do you agree that information overload has a negative impact on your day? And: when […]

For those of you who are interested, here is my comment on the information overload debate hosted by The Economist and CA (Computer Associates) as mentioned in the previous post:  
Technology’s aim never was to simplify our lives. It’s idea is to improve our lives. Simplicity is certainly correlated with the latter goal, but it […]

I have been a subscriber and devoted reader of The Economist, the by far best weekly news magazine I know, for almost 8 years now and was very pleased to get informed by them on a debate they are hosting in cooperation with CA (Computer Associates) that deals with information overload. The central statement, put […]

Here’s a list of useful websites/ resources I came across that deal with information overload or closely related subjects. Some of the articles/ studies are not the newest ones, but I preferred quality over publishing dates.

Blogs/ Websites with focus on information overload

ManagingIO.com ;-)
A Feed is Born - RSS as the redeemer of humanity from IO? Blog about […]

As stated in this blog’s previous post, estimations on the costs of information overload go up to USD 650 billion a year for the US economy alone. Despite the magnitude of those numbers they still seem to underestimate the problem by far.
The reason for this is that those figures are only looking at the direct […]

I recently stumbled upon an article in the NYtimes stating that according to Basex, a business research firm, the costs of information overload will amount to $650 billion in 2008 for US companies alone, making it one of the “main problems of the year 2008”. That’s quite a bold statement, considering the number of problems […]