Information Overload - An IR problem?: - 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.
NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom: - Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents. (October 16, 2003)
Spinning Around: - Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald] (May 20, 2003)
The Register - 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. (May 15, 2002)
How Much Information: - An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.] (October, 2000)
Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects: - Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain. (February 19, 1999)
Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch: - 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. (1998)
