information overload in comment and analysis
iPhone 3G, terrorists and tech, file sharers vs ISP
Comment iPhone overload? No wonder they are worried.in their world they require detailed information about everybody and everything at the click of a button. With Data and information leaks from secure and government facilities being highlighted... [15 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Security scare
Comment The probable culprits are tiredness, overload and my ageing brain. What if you collected partial information from the hard drives and several of these sites? While travelling I lost control of a couple of hard drives containing more than 100GB of... [18 Jun 2008]
The Naked CIO: The V-word
Comment Other mainstream conferences and trade shows are good but tend to represent information overload. Without this information we become out of date. Having a phone or email - come to that, any communication system - can be an irritant for a CIO. [09 Jun 2008]
Where's the real web 2.0?
Comment So we may end up finding it even harder to sort healthy wheat from diseased chaff with an overload of spam feedback, endorsements and recommendations. With some structure we could also say it is useful information but has it evolved into wisdom... [18 Oct 2007]
Information overload
Comment IT professionals are regularly asked to solve the 'information overload' problem but the term may be a misnomer. If we're so replete with information, why can't we find what we need? Stewart Baines finds out how to retrieve and understand essential... [30 Mar 2007]
Stop communications overload before it starts
Comment We have gone beyond information overload to communication overload. So what can an individual do - and how can they be supported by their organisation to reduce the impact that communication overload has on their ability to be productive? [26 Mar 2007]
Leader: The cure for info overload?
Leader Are you suffering from information overload? You're not alone. Top UK IT chiefs say businesses are in danger of drowning in the data they all store - from email to customer stats to financial info. The current regulatory climate has made matters... [29 Nov 2006]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Metrics overload
Comment So most of the information created by such human systems is a travesty, waste of time, detrimental distraction and expensive hobby! Written in Washington DC National Airport and despatched via a public wi-fi service in partnership with my UK ISP [02 May 2006]
Leader: Living with info overload
Leader There's no end in sight for information overload so, as unsexy as it is, managing our bits and bytes must be addressed sooner rather than later - we've lost count of how many times execs have told us 'data is our business' most important asset'. [22 Feb 2006]
Leader: The search for simplicity
Leader This week has seen a great deal of talk about one of the downsides of our increasingly prevalent and powerful IT systems: information overload. Even Bill Gates - whose company has received its share of blame for creating 'bloatware' with too many... [20 May 2005]
Devil's Advocate: The failure of IT training
Comment Turning directly to IT, another area of severe overload is the documentation that comes with software. Now, there may be the equivalent on a CD, but more likely the information is integrated with the product as online help. [05 Oct 2004]
The Director's Cut: You are not alone!
Comment Finding such data is not easy and the search itself often leads to information overload. Make sure that you, as IT director, your CEO’s main source of information on IT issues. Form strategic partnerships with your suppliers to keep track of the... [25 Jun 2003]
Take control of your inbox in 10 easy steps
Comment Before we begin thinking about 'what' we can do about the problem of email overload, let us first put the problem into some kind of perspective. Most inboxes are full of noise and starved of real information. [23 Jun 2003]
The Director's Cut: Avoiding overload
Comment This month David Taylor returns to a perennial problem - information overload. So, the big question is how can we ensure we keep abreast of all we have to know while avoiding the stress and overload - and without going completely mad? [25 Sep 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: ERM, Microsoft wants Unix converts and our old friend information overload
Comment But still it may not be enough to counter the effects of information overload. Computers are the prime facilitators of this overload. The quantity of information flowing into our businesses on a daily basis has reached an officially indigestible... [20 May 2002]
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