Information Obesity

Roland Piquepaille writes "How many phone calls, emails, voicemails, memos or stories do you have to go through every day? Probably more than last year. And probably too much. This article from the Sydney Morning Herald looks at this problem of information overload and how to deal with it. Here is a quick and not well-known fact: Website content management author Gerry McGovern says that something like 70 per cent of most websites goes unread. Despite that, when putting content on the web, "rarely do we ask the question: is anybody interested in reading that?" Good point. Check this column for a summary if you don't have time -- and who has? -- to read the original article."

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Burning Books and Burning Data

[Anonymous Coward]

Website content management author Gerry McGovern says that something like 70 per cent of most websites goes unread.

I thought the point was that information is available. Just because some books in the LOC goes unread is no reason to remove them or for similar books to stop being writen. Id rather have to search through a dozen webpages to find the information I need than for some person to decide that, since the chances that I will read it are slim, they simply wont included it.

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