Feb 01
Information overload is the word that I have selected this week. I realised it could be a good featured word since I feel particularly “technostressed” these days.Her goes the intro from Wikipedia:
Information overload refers to the state of having too much information to make a decision or remain informed about a topic. This term is usually used in conjunction with various forms of computer-mediated communication such as electronic mail. Large amounts of currently available information, a high rate of new information being added, contradictions in available information, a low signal-to-noise ratio, and inefficient methods for comparing and processing different kinds of information can all contribute to this effect.
Read the full article and my related post.
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February 1st, 2006 at 4:28 pm
[...] 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. [...]