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The Tremendous Growth of Useless Information

The Tremendous Growth of Useless Information

By Bob Warfield on August 8, 2010

Eric Schmidt says that every 2 days we create as much new information as we did in the entire period before 2003.  If that’s true, then a fantastic amount of that information must be useless, because civilization certainly hasn’t advanced to the point where it has that much to say every 2 days. What does […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Information overload, SaaS | 1 Response

When Real-time is Too Much – Can You Handle the Firehose?

When Real-time is Too Much – Can You Handle the Firehose?

By Zoli Erdos on July 29, 2010

This morning I’ve been testing TweetDeck’s new super-fast version, based on the new Twitter User Streams API. TweetDeck provides fair warning: This is a VERY experimental version of TweetDeck I saw a few small glitches, but nothing major.  Yet I am in trouble, and it’s not because of the product.  It’s me.  My brain… The […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged API, attention stream, firehose, Information overload, Productivity, real-time, river, seesmic, split attention, stream, tweedeck, Twitter, user stream api

How Much Information & Overload Phenomenon!

How Much Information & Overload Phenomenon!

By Sadagopan on December 9, 2009

The Global Information Industry of the UCSD has put together statistics about how much information gets consumed by Americans every day. Two previous studies, by Peter Lyman and Hal Varian in 2000 and 2003, analyzed the quantity of original content cr…

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Emerging Trends, High-definition television, Information overload, moore's law, research, RSS, Syndication and Feeds, Television, User Generated Content | 1 Response

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