Comments on: Pulling the Plug on Information http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/ Fri, 25 May 2012 08:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Kolz Blog » Blog Archive » Three Ways to Do Less http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61139 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 23:00:56 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61139 [...] own systems for cutting back their daily load on a gradual basis, so that they don’t have to throw everything out at once. Here are three proven strategies for getting your own overload back under control when you feel [...]

]]> By: market research company http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61138 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:07:19 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61138 Information overload along with dis integration have cause immence damage to decision making – time to aggrgate everything at the one place -

]]> By: Three Ways to Do Less « Web Worker Daily http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61137 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:01:05 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61137 [...] own systems for cutting back their daily load on a gradual basis, so that they don’t have to throw everything out at once. Here are three proven strategies for getting your own overload back under control when you feel [...]

]]> By: Web 2.0 Fatigue : The Blog Columnist http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61136 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:42:53 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61136 [...] Web Worker Daily has a post in the same vein – Pulling the Plug on Information. [...]

]]> By: Henry Lewkowicz http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61135 Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:18:52 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61135 It is true that information is pouring faster and faster. To deal with this challenge one can use a) software that extracts and summarizes the essential facts and b) software that visualizes the text information (like MindManager).

One can also combine automatic text summarization with visualization. In the past few years I have been working on both aspects. For anyone who would like to get their web pages and Google searches instantly summarized I can point to Context Organizer (http://www.contextdiscovery.com).

Another improvement can be to apply scripts that summarize large number of search results and report to the user. This way the user takes advantage of a summarizing robot that spiders large number of pages and extracts only the topics that are of interest to the user.

Large amount of information is a good thing providing that we have more practical ways to take advantage of it.

Best regards,

Henry

]]> By: Information overload: quando il troppo stroppia http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61134 Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:54:06 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61134 [...] la segnalazione di Web Worker Daily: un bloogger famoso decide di spegnere feed reader e social network, convinto che l’eccesso di [...]

]]> By: Matthew Lowes http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61133 Fri, 06 Jul 2007 05:02:36 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61133 It makes sense to focus in on feeds that might be useful as well as entertaining. How might they be useful? Ideas, discussion, news, contacts…all these things can potentially be found or cultivated through focused browsing. This is only a small part of what I do. Most of time it’s important to be able to ignore it all and delve deep into off-line work.

]]> By: rationalpsychic http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61132 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:06:31 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61132 I wrote a reply here recently where I said I felt that people didn’t need to be curt or brusque in their use of e-mail. I still believe that.

However, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to also limit the total number of contacts or information sources you deal with and take in. When I went to the library recently I checked out a copy of Marcus Aurelius because I’d never read him in college and thought I might gain from his “Meditations.” I have never read a Danielle Steele novel (from beginning to end, anyway), but did NOT feel compelled to check out any of her books even though her volumes outnumber those by Marcus Aurelius at least 30:1.

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]]> By: Deepak http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61131 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:37:27 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61131 I learn a lot from my feeds, but then some of them are about language and music. It’s not all about tech. Of course nothing wrong with tech feeds and social networks either. Some day though, we’ll figure out how to channel all this information in ways more efficient than the ones we have right now.

]]> By: Dangerfield http://gigaom.com/collaboration/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61130 Wed, 04 Jul 2007 23:57:28 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/04/pulling-the-plug-on-information/#comment-61130 It is plain silly to disconnect when working in a fast paced field like tech, however info overload can be awful. This week I wiped out my cellphone. It is getting repaired, but I am having a really nice time without it. Info holidays are what we need sometimes.

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