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The biggest problem with information overload
The biggest problem with information overload is that information doesn't arrive at regular times, it just comes all the time. If you don't pay attention to it, you run the risk of missing critical or relevant information.
Social media has made people feel they must take notice of everything. The pressure to engage with all of it cause an increased sense of overload, stress and addiction to web-connected devices.
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Digital curation: organising content into meaningful collections
Since the start of human information recording, we've been shifting, selecting, organising and presenting information to give it meaning and clarity.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, said the principal functions of the internet should
- allow anyone to access an...
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Information overload
There is a growing concern that the vast amount of information generated on the web cause overwhelm, much like drinking from a fire hose. The information is rushing past us in such volume that we struggle to engage with it.
In his book "Here comes everybody", Clay Shirky wr...
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Two types of information overload
Situational overload: This is analogous to the needle in a haystack problem. You need a specific piece of information, but it is buried in a mass of other information. Online search engines and other filtering tools like email and Twitter can help most of the time, but only if in...
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Tagging to help with curation
Many people use tagging and RSS feed to identify content related to a topic to make internet content easier to find.
But Shirky's research found that this type of tagging worsens the situation, as so much relevant information was identified that individuals could not pay at...
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The intelligent curation filter
Robin Good, who initially harnessed the idea of curation for social digital media marketing purposes, describes information delivered by search engines as "fast food".
It is useful if you are not concerned with quality, but if you desire quality, you need a curation site or...
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Exhausted from the information overload
There are many techniques aimed at providing a system to help determine what deserves your attention, such as Action-based Priorities or The Eisenhower Matrix.
We're facing the problem that we are primed to take on more information, projects, and communications that make i...
The problem with cherry picking
- It fails to take into consideration all the available information
- It presents information in a misleading way.
- It might lead to improper analysis and might cause someone to paint a misleading picture of a certain outcome.
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