- Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload - Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
- 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.
- Information Overload Annotated Webliography - A collection of links about Information Overload.
- Managing information - Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
- We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload - Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.
Media publications
- 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. (Published 1999-02-19 00:00:00)
- Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer - 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. (Published 1997-03-01 00:00:00)
- 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. (Published 1998-01-01 00:00:00)
- eCFO - Fighting Information Overload - Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data. (Published 2001-03-01 00:00:00)
- 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.] (Published 2000-10-01 00:00:00)
- Informing Ourselves to Death - A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society. (Published 1990-10-11 00:00:00)
- Managing Information: Infoglut - New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley. (Published 1995-10-30 00:00:00)
- 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. (Published 2003-10-16 00:00:00)
- Spinning Around - Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald] (Published 2003-05-20 00:00:00)
- 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. (Published 2002-05-15 00:00:00)
- The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload - 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. (Published 2005-01-25 00:00:00)