information overload
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information overload
Jason EisemanLibrarian for Emerging Technologies
Yale Law School
it’s not information overload it’s filter failurephoto: jeremybrooks on flickr at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremybrooks/2294396074/
“One of the diseases of this age, is the multitude of Books, that doth so overcharge the worlde, that it is not able to disgest the abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought into the world, that are as divers in their formes, as their Authors be in their faces.”
Barnabe Rich - 1610
“We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed the fall of the Roman Empire. Unless we try to prevent this danger by separating those books which we must throw out or leave in oblivion from those which one should save and within the latter between what is useful and what is not.”
Adrien Baillet - 1685
attention problem
continuous partial attention
continuous partial attention vs.
multitasking
attention economy
attention economy gamecreated by professor ulises mejias at SUNY Oswego
at http://blog.ulisesmejias.com/2008/02/22/attention-economy-the-game/
your attention is a valuable resource
your attention is a finite resource
you can’t pay attention to everyone/everything
so stop trying
return on investment (roi)
who, what, where, when, why (and how) of information sources
who?
coworkers
professional colleagues
colleagues I know
colleagues I don’t know
friends (real or online)
what?
industry news
tutorials
case studies
product updates
sales information
where?
professional journals
listservs
blogs
news sites
social media
when?
real time
daily
weekly
monthly
why?
interesting
critical to your job
support the organization’s mission
how
choose your home, where you’ll live
emailgoogle reader
continuous process
make information come to you
filtering information
scanning vs. reading
choose a system
store for later
tools
desktop search
saving to the cloud
RSSrss icon pillow on etsy at http://www.etsy.com/listing/25954942/rss-icon-pillow
google reader
twitter & other social networks
discovery tools and aggregators
further reading
questions?
@jeiseman
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