Too much information … running through my brain

1 Feb

mozilla logos I have 3 computers: a game-and-design-oriented PC at home, a professional workstation and my laptop at work. The first applications I launch after I boot any of these machines are Firefox and Thunderbird. Then, I browse some of the reference websites: boxes and arrows, digital web, a list apart or web break stuff, among many others.At the same time, I check some feeds I have subscribed to: 456BereaStreet, cre8d design, Jeffrey Veen (non exhaustive list).It’s a typical case of information overflow (see post on this week’s “word of the week“): I get too much information as input and don’t have enough time to process it. Some call it also technostress.As a result, I have decided to refrain from adding more items to my del.icio.us list and to my feeds. Sometimes I tend to forget that life is not only about the web…

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Author Alex

4 Responses to “Too much information … running through my brain”

earthling February 1, 2006 at 9:50 pm #

Hi,

Happened to come across this in technorati. I’m writing about something related right now. Do you remember your sense of overload and frustration happening at a particular point in time? Was it always like this?
alex February 3, 2006 at 11:54 am #

In fact, it started in August last year. It was related to a tough period at work. I realized it when I had more than 200 unread e-mail, and I usually have no more than 5 unread e-mails at the same time. What are you planning to do about this info btw?
earthling February 6, 2006 at 11:26 pm #

Thanks for the reply. I’m just trying to talk to as many people as I can, to find out how they handle it. I want to cover it in some depth on my blog, and also improve my strategy for staying on top of things.