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The Cure for Information Overload

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the technological-success-story dept.

Ged writes "Those librarian blogerati have done it again: they've just discovered 'The Cure for Information Overload'. It's a very elegant formula if you ask me, with obvious SRU/SRW applications, and maybe even TLA ramifications. I'm not sure about all of the conclusions, but it sure is an interesting theory."

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  1. Yay for Ponies!!! by Toast10101 · · Score: 5, Informative

    OMG!!! An informative and interesting first post!!!

    The informative and interesting part: Ponies are little horsies.

  2. Escape! by tehshen · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you're suffering from information overload, the last place you want to be is here.

    Soooo many stories...

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    1. Re:Escape! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
      Soooo many stories...

      So little time each year!

      It's like the superbowl for, err, australians: WTF is going on!? I thought you said football. This is so wrong and backward.

  3. GAH!!! by deopmix · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just want to read the article, it seems to keep linking to other links. I think that it's broken. Anybody got any suggestions??

  4. Typical by Big+Frank · · Score: 5, Funny

    Another poorly written Slash Dot summary. The article has a completely different perspective.

  5. The cure by Xymor · · Score: 5, Funny

    The cure for information overload has been found centuries ago. It's called Beer.

  6. Chuck Norris Fact by tehlinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Chuck Norrris' tears cure information overload. It's too bad he has never cried!

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  7. I'm happy to help by RedLaggedTeut · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just want to read the article, it seems to keep linking to other links. I think that it's broken. Anybody got any suggestions??

    Sure, here is a working link: http://tinyurl.com/ng69u
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  8. *gasp* by MK_CSGuy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Think of the Slashdotting potential!

  9. Mirror by wildsurf · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mirror

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  10. Tagging Beta by teknomage1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Is it necessary to tag every story as gay?

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    1. Re:Tagging Beta by caffeination · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just you wait, they're going to have to hardcode a block for this, because it's going to run and run and run. Anything we don't like from now on? GAY! And every time, the gay rights nutters will scuttle out from under the fridge to complain.

  11. Enough Please by aardwolf64 · · Score: 2

    Ok guys... This has got to stop. RTFA at Wikipedia on April Fools... no jokes are supposed to be made after mid day. Sigh...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fool's_Day

  12. Re:Enough with the April Fool's Crap by ettlz · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look, it's the one day of the year that the Slashdot editors can get away with posting incoherent and/or unsubstantiated rubbish bearing little — if any — resemblance to the truth. So let them have their fun, OK?

  13. Re:Enough with the April Fool's Crap by xilmaril · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, actually. I've seen an extensive study on the subject of recursive humour, and it actually increases exponentially with each retelling. For more information, see here.

  14. Re:Enough with the April Fool's Crap by Cloud+9 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Look, it's the one day of the year

    *snort*

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  15. Re:Enough with the April Fool's Crap by TeacherOfHeroes · · Score: 4, Funny

    it's the one day of the year that the Slashdot editors can get away with posting incoherent and/or unsubstantiated rubbish bearing little -- if any -- resemblance to the truth

    You must be new here...

  16. the real cure for information overload by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Informative

    is to mod this post +informative.

  17. I, for one... by Kelson · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...welcome our new Information Overloads.

  18. link fixed: by mblase · · Score: 2, Informative

    http://www.gdrc.org/icts/i-overload/cure.html

    Thanks for ruining my fun, Google.

  19. Gay? by mblase · · Score: 2, Funny

    More like a circle jerk....

  20. Re:Recursive by Bricklets · · Score: 2, Informative

    yeah! i got the ad and i *thought* i had hit the end. nope, there was a link at the bottom...

    i'm still clicking as we speak

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  21. Best April Fool's joke so far by mpontes · · Score: 2
    Personally, I enjoyed this one. It illustrated well the nature of the Internet, someone finds something, links it to another person, that person links it again, repeat.

    I loved the different blog personas and their comments. I don't know, call me stupid, but there's just something about it that I can't help finding fascinating.

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  22. The cure is simple: by mogwai7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop all the downloadin!