Dealing with All the Info
I get a lot of email. Sometimes, I get too much email. Between work email, Brighthand email, personal email, newsletters, sales brochures, and forwards from everywhere -- not to mention spam -- there's a lot of information that come thru my eyes on any given day. In addition, I read 30+ websites a day keeping up with news from tons of subject areas. If you will, there is a ton of information around me and I have had some successes and failures in managing it all.
One of the reasons for using a smartphone was to help stem the tide of all of this info. So that instead of getting it in all at once at the end of a busy day, I am getting it in bits and pieces throughout. While its help me manage it, there's still a large amount of information. I've spent the better part of this summer looking at all of this information, and how to better navigate with it while maintaining some sense of balance in my life. And though I fee successful in some parts, there is never less information, always more, and the old stuff grows along with the new.
Mike Rohde pointed to a webpage which talks about this information overload, termed infomania, and why its such an important and neglected issue. Rather than get into the overall effects of this, I'd like to ask: how do those of you in information-centric fields deal with the deluge of information, and how do you keep it from becoming too overbearing (if you are able to keep it from being overbearing)?
One of the reasons for using a smartphone was to help stem the tide of all of this info. So that instead of getting it in all at once at the end of a busy day, I am getting it in bits and pieces throughout. While its help me manage it, there's still a large amount of information. I've spent the better part of this summer looking at all of this information, and how to better navigate with it while maintaining some sense of balance in my life. And though I fee successful in some parts, there is never less information, always more, and the old stuff grows along with the new.
Mike Rohde pointed to a webpage which talks about this information overload, termed infomania, and why its such an important and neglected issue. Rather than get into the overall effects of this, I'd like to ask: how do those of you in information-centric fields deal with the deluge of information, and how do you keep it from becoming too overbearing (if you are able to keep it from being overbearing)?
posted by Antoine @ 8/31/2007 01:10:00 PM
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