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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Useless Gadets

[chickenwing]

My favorate quote:

"Don't use new technologies blindly. Don't use them just for the fun of it. Think about how all of your tools encourage certain behaviours and discourage other behaviours and make sensible judgements about whether you like those tendencies or need to be alert against their shaping your life in a way you're not happy about," he says.

As one who cannot afford all the new masturbatory gadgets that come out, I often wonder how much they actually contribute to productivity, rather than further encumbering their users.