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	How Much Information - http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info/ An attempt to measure how much information is produced in the world each year. [Results are available in multiple formats and levels of detail.]
	We Have the Information you Want, but Getting it Will Cost You: Being held hostage by Information Overload - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds1-1/mnelson.html Research paper discussing overload and possible solutions. Time Utility. Volume. Verifying Accuracy.
	Deep Thinking and Deep Reading in an age of InfoGlut, Info-Garbage, Info-Glitz and Info-Glimmer - http://www.fno.org/mar97/deep.html Schools must make a dramatically expanded commitment to questioning, research, information literacy and student-centered classrooms. Students will need a radically different skills array to negotiate this new information landscape.
	Information Overload Annotated Webliography - http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/overload.shtml A collection of links about Information Overload.
	Desperately Seeking: Helping Hands and Human Touch - http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue3_11/hermans/index.html Looks at a number of solutions, including "agency," agent-like applications, improvements in the information chain and information brokering, which may help deal with information overload in the online marketplace. By Bjorn Hermans.

	Managing Information: Infoglut - http://www.informationweek.com/551/51mtinf.htm New tools can help tame an ocean of data. By John Foley.
	Infoworld.com - Overcoming Information Overload - http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ca/xml/00/01/10/000110caoverload.html Although technology is causing information overload, it can also offer ways to combat it.
	The Role of Contextual Clues in the Creation of Information Overload - http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/research/PAPER200.pdf This paper presents the results from, and analysis of, a case study of a perceived problem of information overload from e-mail in a large international organisation. (Acrobat File).
	Informing Ourselves to Death - http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper A speech given by Neil Postman, German Informatics Society.
	The Register - Data Dyspepsia Blights the Workforce - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/15/data_dyspepsia_blights_the_workforce/ Research from Gartner has found that 90% of companies believe they get too much information pumped through to them on a regular basis.

	Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload - http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~cs125a/content/agentsmaes.doc Article discussing how artificial intelligence offers some solutions to problems of actively managing information.
	Managing information - http://www.managing-information.org.uk/ Ways to assist a person in deciding what information is actually needed.
	NYTimes.com - Digging for Nuggets of Wisdom - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE5DD173EF935A25753C1A9659C8B63 Text mining is becoming a viable option for everyday citizens seeking to read, summarize or analyze large numbers of documents.
	Information Overload - An IR problem? - http://csdl2.computer.org/persagen/DLAbsToc.jsp?resourcePath=/dl/proceedings/&toc=comp/proceedings/spire/1998/8664/00/8664toc.xml&DOI=10.1109/SPIRE.1998.712984 An abstract of a study by M.Montebello. Proceedings of the String Processing and Information Retrieval: A South American Symposium. A downloadable copy of the entire study is available in .PDF format.
	Spinning Around - http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/05/19/1053196515705.html Information overload isn't just sending individuals around the bend, it's hurting productivity, writes David Adams. [The Sydney Morning Herald]

	eCFO - Fighting Information Overload - http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/3002204 Knowledge management software helps find the most relevant, most useful data.
	Change and Information Overload: Negative Effects - http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/CHINNEG.html Even the intellectually most advanced groups, the researchers, educators, managers and technologists, often feel overwhelmed by the changes in their domain.

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