Comments on: Are you wired or tired? How to ease information overload http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/10/06/are-you-wired-or-tired-how-to-ease-information-overload/ digital humanities: melbourne australia Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:22:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Henry Lewkowicz http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/10/06/are-you-wired-or-tired-how-to-ease-information-overload/comment-page-1/#comment-421177 Henry Lewkowicz Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:43:30 +0000 http://www.craigbellamy.net/?p=985#comment-421177 You are right that the issue of filtering information is at the heart of the battle for information quality and usability. Speaking about tools that help with information overload I like to use my instant summarization application. Summarization is underappreciated but highly effective filtering. Summary focuses on the key issues and reduces information to the very essential points. In practice less is more and instantly finding the key sentences helps us with rapid comprehension. If you were curious about Context Organizer you can download it from http://www.contextdiscovery.com/ and I would be delighted to hear from you. You are right that the issue of filtering information is at the heart of the battle for information quality and usability.

Speaking about tools that help with information overload I like to use my instant summarization application. Summarization is underappreciated but highly effective filtering. Summary focuses on the key issues and reduces information to the very essential points. In practice less is more and instantly finding the key sentences helps us with rapid comprehension.

If you were curious about Context Organizer you can download it from http://www.contextdiscovery.com/ and I would be delighted to hear from you.

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