How do You Deal with Information Overload?

Mate - as I tweeted you.

The solution to information overload is Attention Management.

Check out http://www.apml.org and http://www.engagd.com

I’ve been blogging on it for ages here: http://www.particls.com/blog

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Interesting topic!

Perhaps it only seems like “overload” to the degree in which you are trying to “keep up.” People just growing up with the Internet now, and its vast resources, will probably be so used to there being so much information available that they won’t feel overloaded at all.

As for how to sift through all that information to find what you need, I agree that that will be a human role for many years to come. Humans are already helping to sort out all the information with sites like Digg and Wikipedia. Even a site like this is in some ways a “Pirillo Information Filter” as it contains information you gathered and filtered yourself.

I think with blogs and podcasts and sites like Digg and Twitter and YouTube, we may no longer even have to put any extra effort into “keeping up” … the important information will emerge from these resources to us.

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The easy way to deal with information overload is to have select amount of resources and subscribe to their content so that it comes to you. Things such as e-mail newsletters or RSS feeds. I subscribe to about 50 newsletter and about 80 RSS feeds. This is no where near the amount that you have. But it is alot more than the people around me. There is a time where I feel that too much information is coming to me and at my fingertips. Usually when this happens, I take a day or two and stop looking for or receiving information.

In case of text I skim text. In case of video, if I don’t get interested in during the first minute I close it.

i second that

i just saw your 1st vid ever

Information overload has been with us for a thousand years, but we had to saddle up and ride to the library to find it… now it surrounds us, and we have to saddle up and ride to the library to escape it!

“How to deal with info overload”…..hmmm….Get a gun? I dunno. :D

Great message! I can’t agree more! You are totaly right

Check out Saul Wutman’s “Information Anxiety,” or similar things by Mark Hurst or Nathan Shedroff.

Where did you get your screensaver from Chris?

ha but dont insult chris like that even though it was funny

The trick for me is to decide what you care about, and then what best suits your needs for keeping up with those important things. For me, its Family… I check my myspace once a week or so as my family are spread out in places all over the south. also, there is technology. For this I have things like Chris’s blog on my google front page, as well as other things there such as email and various writing tools like my online dictionary and thesaurus I try to bundle as much of what I need in one place..

no opinion; just waiting for your solution. i think someone said that Jefferson knew everything that was known at his time. those days are long gone which is why we have increasing specialization. good luck. eeb

someone needs to make a all-in-one program so you can get your e-mail, rss, videos, pics, music and everything from one place in one program. Also we need a online dictionary

The answer is they’re not all necessary, and we should really only focus on what matters to us.

Does he finally has a faster broadcasting line… the vid is so smooth!

Your an an english teacher? :(

Information overload is a derivative of that “human factor”. So is software… to be more concise, you mean to say that people should focus more on making a quick and valid point without too much rambling :) Actually, what you’re talking about is the CHARM of Google!

Yes, I get 3 Lockergnome newsletters which distills the tech news out there down to the best stuff for me and I don’t even have time to read them everyday!

BTW, Surround was great, but it had nothin’ on Yar’s Revenge!!!

Also, just an observation:
As much as I love watching your antics, Chris, lately I’ve been reading the transcripts on these pages instead of watching the video. The above article got your point across in a few paragraphs which only took a minute or so to read versus the 11 minutes it took to watch you say it - something to think about, eh?

“…brevity is the soul of wit”
~William Shakespeare, Hamlet

I like your cartoon

As simple as that:

I read what i want to read and I watch, what I want to watch.

I’m not really a news junkie. I like to keep up with the latest tech toys but as far as the eveing news goes, I turn it off.

i agree with u on twittr but no one uses ask jeevs an more :D

I know, it was kinda like a “yeah, when pigs fly!” type of comment, except it was more like “Yeah, when Ask Jeeves replaces Google!”.

where did u get that wallpaper

This may sound drastic but every six months I erase my bookmarks. All of them. Of course I go back in and add about 50% in the first day, but I find that this process really cuts down on the amount of stuff I have to follow every day. It sorts out what I’m really using the web for and stuff that is just sort of random and I call up (like blogs that are updated once a month at best).

I am surprised that you didn’t touch on the fact that even other humans may be corrupted in their information GIVING because of the overload they took in while TAKING in information. I do see this being a problem. One other thing is that search engines, being keyword based, cannot recognize an exact question that a human with information could answer in seconds. A question like “What are the strange twirly wires in a light bulb called?”where you’d be lucky to find a light bulb parts guide, but more importantly that an electrician could’ve simply told you “A filament” in the “0.62 seconds” it took for Google to find those 65,000,000 pages of crap you don’t care about.

This is true. I personally don’t suffer from it but there is a lot of Information on the Web. Its great that you (Chris) have the ability to ask us (your Community) a question and we immediately have answers and opinions for you. That is very convenient for you and were able to help you as well.

Good post and video. My solution to info overload (which I’m still working on) lines up with yours - rely on people to filter through the noise. I have been relying on the aggregator FriendFeed with a circle of tech bloggers that read a lot of feeds. I have largely abandoned my feed reader, and have been using these people as my filter. Works really great, as I found this post through that very system.

Meanwhile I should try your suggestion to just shut it off - I think I’ll set up my Mac to shut down at a particular time every evening.

It is overwhelming
All my forums, emails and peoples blogs theres so much to check but like no time for all of it
theres SOO much
But now it seemms like they are integrating it in to all one thing like RSS or apps on facebook and such
And relying on the machine has never been easier, gets easier every day

How do You Deal with Information Overload?(Chris Pirillo )

How do You Deal with Information Overload? (author unknown) via Chris Pirillo on Tue, 06 May. 2008 Shared by Robert Scoble How do I deal with information overload? I turn off Chris Pirillo and go to sleep.readmore

I agree. It is very easy these days to have Information Overload. At the same time, I think that it is wonderful that there is so much information available, but it is obviously up to the viewer to determine how much to take in and how much of it to believe.

Personally, I like to sit back and listen to some music to clear my mind.

I think too much infomation can be very overwhelming for one person. I found that a lot of people google every aspect of their life to find answers to their many questions. This is a useful information resource, but should be taken with caution as to the validity of its answers. I have learned a lot about computers and techie things from the internet, and I have enjoyed very minute of it.

Sometime in the future it will be solved to a degree with A.I. moving forward. I remember what it was like to hop on the web and get done what I needed to pretty quickly, now there is so much content it’s mind boggling, Chris Pirillo blog and youtube :P Twitter, Pownce, Digg,
Revision 3, Yahoo Buzz, ZDnet, Slashdot and so on. Google is moving in the right direction with it’s free online web services which makes things much easier to stay organized.

i deal with information overload by turning off all of my computers and tvs and i go out with my friends. if i have a question i go my brother or sister then i will go to a book and if i need to i will go to the internet.

I agree 100 percent that there is too much content on the web. But I disagree with the sender of the email because i think we decide weather something is good or bad. Most of the content on the web is made by humans or put on by humans. The machines are just a way to view that info.

Yeah theres a lot of information out on the internet. Its hard to absorb all that information and try to keep up to date with all that. Even on the computer side I am a computer junkie, but I still don’t keep up with everything like what is the latest HP Printer, or what is the latest MP that a webcam can get up to. The stuff I learn and I keep up to date is the stuff I need to know about. If I need to know about how to fix something for instance, I will try to figure it out, if I can’t I ask people I know, if none of them know then I venture to the internet. I am not saying that the internet isn’t a good place to look for information, but you never know on the internet if that information is always right. So thats why the internet tends to be as a last resource thing for me. Thats just my input on it. Thanks for the video Chris Pirillo.

But what if you have a lot of interests that matter to you? There just isn’t enough time in the day unfortunately.

I feel the exact same way with Twitter and every thing i feel like im just getting too much info and i just need to take a step back.

The problem with the abundance of information is also that you don’t exactly know how credible each source is. You may know the name, like Wikipedia for example, but the information on it isn’t always correct (however most of the time it is thanks to the Wiki-People). And because there is the large amount of information, coupled with many sources saying the same and different things about one topic, its hard to tell which way to go.

If you just go by the biggest names, a lot of the time that will work, as more people view it and the better chance there is somebody would report a flaw. But when a big name isn’t available, I like to use a place I have at least heard of before.

However, the abundance of information is quite helpful too! Now you don’t have to go to a library to look something up - just hop on a computer and search it.

Something that would be very useful is a filtering system that shows the most credible sources first, then down from there. Because with an abundance of information, it is very likely there is a large amount of false statements about each and every topic imaginable.

yeah i agree with about basically everything you said. sometimes its just to much.
our parents generation and maybe further back in the past, people where so naive.
its crazy what kids know nowadays. wow. sometimes i wish i lived on a nice secluded farm. just feed the cows maybe play some xbox live, haha.

Señor Twitter,

You bring-up an interesting point. When I first saw the title of this blog I just thought to myself, “Well, I’m sure that the Google search engine will take care of our information problem”.

Now I’m not quite so sure.

Often times when I’m looking for answers, I will head over to Yahoo Answers and ask a question to the community there (much like you do with your community here and on Twitter).

Sometimes this is effective for me — and sometimes it is not.

One of my biggest concerns with this method is that the opinion of the majority is so often WRONG.

I mean, the majority of people once thought the world was flat…. the majority of people once thought the sun revolved around the earth….etc, etc, etc.

Actually, the quote that I most live by comes from Mark Twain, who once said:

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect”.

In today’s world, the opinion of the majority doesn’t seem to be much wiser. The majority of people get divorced…. the majority of people have unhappy relationships in their lives…. the majority of people are unable to see the consequences of their own actions…. etc, etc, etc.

So, that is my only concern with throwing out a question to a large group of people. Sure, the majority may give us an answer, but even then it’s still up to us to do the research to see whether or not the majority spoke the truth to us.

This blog comment, however, is certainly the truth.

-James Gia

Chris its a great solutions.
Well what about people who are just starting to build a community ?
People having few page views, few contacts, few twitter , few youtube followers, how do we throw out questions to your own community and expect an answer.
Is fame a factor ?

eat more salt

I just view the information I want to see, I never try to view it all. Thus the internet always has the amount of information I want. Not anymore or any less.

smooth video, this is a fav..

Too much information?

I’d like to share some information. I made some quality Windows Vista, XP and Ubuntu video tutorials with tips, tweaks and hacks for you, check out my channel.

Cheers
PCWizKid

What information overload? Technology only makes us do a lot more things than we used to. The problem is lack of focus. People do things simultaneously like reading facebook while writing a thesis while watching Chris on Youtube. If it were the old days, we can only do one thing at a time at a pace much slower than in our “overloaded” phase. We would have gone through tons of material in the library just to look for one article relevant to our thesis and would have look through tapes of VHS just to be entertained with videos. Now, we can do all that simultaneously in seconds.

It is a screensaver called Fenetres Volantes, available for OS X. If you do a search on Google for it you should be able to find it.

Chris,

If I am searching the internet today for some information I usually use google. If I get too much information I will use a service such as Yahoo! But that is just one example of information overload.

All of my friends have cell phones (so do I). We all have computers, IM, blogs, Facebooks, etc. With technology we can know someone in Japan better than our next door neighbor. Its crazy. That is the reality of the internet.

But back to the main point. Think about all the ways in which someone can contact you. Facebook, Myspace, call you either on your phone or cell, email, or your blog. Those are just a few examples today.

I have noticed myself being more and more addicted to information. I am constantly checking my email, cell phone, Facebook, etc. What I have done that helps me is very simple. Turn off the phone, shutdown my laptop, and do alternative things such as build something, mow the lawn, or even do homework!

Are we having too much information around ? Are we forcing our selfs to stuff all that informations into our head? Should we care to know about all? The answer is no. I came out to talk about this just after readingChris Pirillo’spost regarding information overload post and how to deal with it. Below is an extract from his post.  The problem today isn’t that there’s not enough information. There’s too much. It’s not there aren’t ways to publish content on the

thanks this clears everything up!

Also, someone can contact you anytime, any day, anywhere. Have you ever been talking to someone and their cell phone rings and they say, “Hang on I have to take this call”? What that person just said to you (whether they like it or not) is “This conversation is over, and this call has a higher priority than you.” That is the harsh reality though.

I am a teenager, and I am not anti-communication at all. I have email, a website, facebook, IM, a cell phone, etc. I also have a small lawn service business though, and I am forced to interact with adults/people in general on a daily basis or else I will not make any money.

For many of my friends social interaction has become something that they dread. Many of the kids I know have a difficult time holding a conversation with someone. It is very sad to say, but it is reality. I don’t know what some of these people will do when they have to get a job and are forced to interact with a customer. You know what happens when you cannot interact with a customer or employer? You get fired. End of story. They are going to have to learn fast, you cannot text message a customer…….

There is another problem with information overload. The problem of weeding out the wrong information or false info from the true.

With so many sources for news and opinions, I have always been confused as to who is giving me the correct perspective. Our prejudice against media conglomerates hasn’t helped us either. There is so much confusion that I always end up taking the “wait and watch” approach, for most parts, turning apathetic to the situations.

Sometimes I wonder, if this is a conspiracy in itself, bombarding people with so much information that would be helpless to believe in the real news/info.

Not everybody has so many people listening if you have a question. However, I get your point. Actually the services like Yahoo! Answers (http://answers.yahoo.com/) and LinkedIn Answers (http://www.linkedin.com/answers) or the discontinued Google Answers is going into this direction. Well, at least for people who do not have 10,000 followers in Twitter :)

If everybody would spent time answering question in return for questions he asked, the thing should work out fine and be sustainable. Already today are you getting pretty decent answers in many cases, if you use the existing services.

Chris, I am angry. You obviously do not look to related links at the bottom of wikipedia. Links to scientific journals. Google scholar is another good one :D

I feel you on the information but honestly, I’m not like other people where they have 6 emails for no reason. When I find important information, usually I go to notepad or word 2007 and save important information or things that I see that are interesting and save it so that I have a knowledge for it. I use only one email and forward everything I sign up to that current email. It’s tough to keep up with information especially with the internet, usually in my college every information we get goes directly to our emails and if you miss a day or two checking your mail, most likely got some catching up to do.

How do You Deal with Information Overload?

Very good point, at first I love information handlers and applications, but after reading your blog post, I must say I agree completely. There is way too much information out there and it was much easier when the tools were not available. A simpler approach to handling information was how it used to be, and you are absolutely correct, it does get worse and worse each day.

Great blog post Chris!

I get info overlode all the time there is so much stuff out there and not enough hours in the day to view it all the net is so wide I don’t even chris has explored the whole of the world wide web!

google…thats the answer to all questions :P

Having all the info you really need at your fingertips is not really a bad thing. But there are way to many places to get said information. And every day there is more put on the web.

Information overload? That’s a topic I have discussed with my family on a number of occasions. I definitely think that the more information you have the better, but the trick is weeding out the correct from the incorrect. There’s so much good info out there on the web, there’s also so much b.s. and trash. People have all sorts of things they wish to learn about that a wealth of information is almost necessity… I wish to inquire about modding computers, automotive, games, etc. whereas my father wishes to inquire about J-Lo’s rear end. So how do you manage all that info that people want? I guess it’s up to the individual to decide whether they want to adopt what they read or see as truth or fiction. I feel it’s sort of a catch 22… the more people there are using computers the more content will be input, but less input means less users… less users means less advancements in the technology. What do we do here? I feel the more we as a people become reliant on technology as our means of interaction with one another, the more we become desensitized to one another… that’s just a theory, but I believe that theory holds water on a number of levels. I could go all day on this topic, but I’ll just leave it at this… us humans created content, not the other way around.

nice topic. it’s true. there’s too much information out there. mostly unwanted information. if i want to know something, i just go to direct and trusted websites such as yahoo answers and wikipedia. i don’t normally search google as the results are somehow biased and most of them are trashy websites that i can’t even understand what they are talking about..

“Seek and you shall find” is the blessing and curse of the internet. The internet has so much information that you can likely find support for any argument no matter how biased or false. That not to say that there is no truth online but unless you have intellectual rigor and really want to find out what is true you can easily “prove” any thesis. That is one reason that many people criticizes information gleaned from the web.

On a more practical level how does one determine if the information on the web is in fact true. I would start by determining what are the sources that the website is using. If no references are cited or research methodology explained on the site it doesn’t speak well of the validity of the claims being made. Check for confirmation of the information with other site which do no have an affiliation. At some point as Chris mention you will have to talk to a person with an authoritative knowledge on the subject.

An example is the 9/11 conspiracy theorist who claim that the fires in the towers were not hot enough to melt steel. That is true and if the research stops there the conclusion may be reached that there must have been explosives planted. But if more research was done they would find out that steel is severely weakened at high temperatures. This doesn’t disprove their hypothesis but rather illustrates that without rigor one can stop looking when one finds the answers that satisfies their expectation of what the truth is.

Talk about timing! I was just wondering on this topic recently. 3 days of vacation and its hundreds of unread emails, posts via feeds, blogs and facebook notifications for me. Its the interweb at its best.

I agree that we should instead prioritise. I usually go through my list of subscribed feeds in my reader to weed out feeds i no longer am interested to read once a while.

When the incoming information really does get overloaded, I’d just save the day with the help of the Mark all as read button. It helps to live under a rock once a while..for the sake of my sanity. ;)

i can deal some amount of info but to much makes u go nuts and makes u mad at everyone but just take one step at a time and get threw it all like forums/blogs/e-mail/ims ect…

Im just starting to deal with information over load im sure not like you lol. Just keeping up rss feeds is hard let a lone emails youtube video’s and forums. The amount of information on the Internet still baffles me from time to time, Any thing you wanna know is at your finger tips. Some times information can be hard to fin n we all know ad that sucks spend hours searching for something. Thats whats great bout sites like yahoo answer’s way more effective than sites like google at times any ways. Google is always my first choice.

whats with all the youtube robot spam? well i really think information can be spread out everywhere. My favorite thing to do which is pretty unnecessary is to save all the online articles that i find interesting, even though sites like nytimes.com you can still find all the articles in the paper from 1996 on the web. But just in case something happens and the internet is taken away from us, say united states gets controlled by google or something and they turn us into a communist country, haha, really it’s for no reason but just back up things anyway.

I think information overload (IOL) has a lot to do with what type of person you are. Personally, I am quite good at scanning large amounts of information quite quickly and getting the details I need. However, I know for other people who are much more meticulous and like reading every single detail, IOL is very real and effects their concentration and their productivity.

When I have a lot of information come to me at once the only way that I can really deal with it all, is right it all down. I have to write down the time, the date, and sometimes even the due date. My PDA currently is in charge of organizing all my data. Especially since I am still in school. I have a lot of assignments and due dates for things. So I have a lot of data to organize. Plus I am the President of our Skills USA Chapter. I have a lot of meetings to go to for that.

I look forward to wireless, direct to brain interfaces sure to come in the future. I would be the first in line for the dawn of cyborg technology, happily volunteering my brain, as I can’t get enough of ‘information’. I am addicted to information, even if it is something I have no functional purpose to know.

I, for one, welcome our inevitable hybrid overlords.

Chris said he thinks “humans will help us clear out the noise alot quicker than software ever will”. I say never say never (or ever in this case). “Ever” is a long time, and it’s only a matter of time before we have outrageously robust advanced artificial intelligence algorithms emulating cognitive processes of humans - at least to some degree. Maybe the software won’t be able to discern wit, creativity, or irony anytime soon, but I still wouldn’t say that it won’t “ever” happen. Sure, for the time being we’ve got a long, long way before we are at that level of AI, so humans will have to do.

Nevertheless, I think having an ocean of never ending information is great! I haven’t been “bored” with nothing to do since I was a child because there’s ALWAYS something to do on the internet. When I was a kid, we didn’t have the internet, and I didn’t have a computer, and I had to walk to school in the snow uphill BOTH ways, BAREFOOT!!….etc. But I remember the days of two options as a kid - go outside, which there is nothing wrong with, or watch TV and be indoctrinated with one-way transmission of usually mediocre crap punctuated by commercials. Now, I get on the internet, and set sail, not having any particular destination, but always learning something. I’ll take too much information over not enough GLADLY. The days before the internet were the Dark Ages of information as far as I’m concerned. There’s NO going back to those BORING days. Now, I can cross-reference, and jump from one link to the next in an instant, have several windows open of different content that I can instantly jump to when I want a break from one. Input!! Need more input!!

I use Yahoo Answers…

The information available online and all the gadgets everyone uses to access “the cloud” are becoming the main subject of our life and that’s what causes the issues we’re having when confronted with the amount of resources and data on the Internet.
Instead this information has to be perceived as a tool that makes our work easier and empowers/enables us - Internet is here to serve us, not the other way around.
I guess wasting time online it just another part of the same old story :P

Information overload?! I’ll tell you who has information overload, KAT! She has to read every single one of these comments, and even say yes or no to them. I was talking to her today when she told me that she has mod’ed over 1100 comments since May 1 when the Dragon giveaway started. Crazy as it sounds, it will be getting more crazy closer to time. I wish Kat the best in her modding… and as always.. be nice to Kat. She will, though she doesn’t want to, she WILL kick your tope. (spanish for Butt)

I see Information Overload on almost a comforting level. This information isn’t just populating itself. People are going out, working hard, and saying and doing what they think - and spreading that around. I find it nice that there are so many people who really are geuninly passioant about there lifes, so much so that they want to share it with the rest of the world. You could float around the internet and never read or watch the same person twice, but you’d never lose that sense of pashion for life. But people know when they go out, set up a Blog, Channel, Stream, feed what have you, that they are jumping into this unimaginable pool of information and activity - but they still stand true to what they are about. And I don’t think that is going to go away. In my opinion, true human compassion is too strong.