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This article by David Kirsh, which appeared in Intellectica, distinguishes supply related overload from demand side overload and how environments must be designed to minimize overload's negative consequences.

Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.

Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.

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.

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.

Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.

An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]

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 is a unique problem. Information tends to be everywhere and we have problems even to remember where we put it, much less what it is. Here is a small collection of links to increase your information overload about information overload.

A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.

Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it.

Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.

New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.

Reuters, the global information and news group, has published international research revealing pronounced differences in the way that nationalities around the world are coping with the information age. The research shows that while some countries are now leaving the age of information overload behind them, others at much earlier points on the evolutionary curve are only just entering it.

Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize, or analyze large numbers of documents. [Requires free nytimes.com registration to view.]

Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]

Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis.

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).

Scholarly article with definitions, statistics, problems and processes, trends, suggestions, conclusions, and references for further reading.

Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.