Knock, Knock: Information Pollution Is Here

Posted by timothy on Sunday December 28, 2003 @12:13PM from the does-this-bother-you-does-this-bother-you dept.

CowboyRobot writes ""Information Pollution" is one of the newer buzz-phrases, appearing in various media to describe unwanted phone calls, faxes, emails, etc. Jakob Nielsen, known for his critiques of user interfaces has an article about the problems of unwanted instant messaging interruptions. Nielsen is respectable not only because of the clarity of his arguments but because he also cites empirical evidence, rather than just complaining. In the article he describes the current problem, then proposes a 'control panel' as a centralized interface to manage all the communications one would make via the computer."

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Mental Environmentalism by Merik · 2003-12-28 12:57 · Score: 4, Informative

Our inbox mirrors our daily life.(even the penis enlarger ads[enzyte]).
3000 commercial messages a day are rammed into the average persons head wether they like it or not.
Adbusters argues that our mental environment is becoming polluted. "information pollution" has been a focus of their "mental environmentalism" since '89.

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Re:With all the spam ... by The+Cydonian · 2003-12-28 13:30 · Score: 4, Informative

Try Alltheweb. Zero porn content in a random search for teens.
(Of course, helps that I switched the Offensive Content Filter to 'on')

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