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"Do You Have 'e-Mail Apnea'? HBR Touches on That Topic and Others in 'Death by Information Overload'"

Posted by StephanieWestAllen: "This great article arrived at just the right time for me. Excerpt from "Death by Information Overload" (Harvard Business Review):

With the information floodgates open, content rushes at us in countless formats: Text messages and Twitter tweets on our cell phones. Facebook friend alerts and voice mail on our BlackBerrys. Instant messages and direct-marketing sales pitches (no longer limited by the cost of postage) on our desktop computers. Not to mention the ultimate killer app: e-mail. (I, for one, have nearly expired during futile efforts to keep up with it.)

Meanwhile, we're drawn toward information that in the past didn't exist or that we didn't have access to but, now that it's available, we dare not ignore. Online research reports and industry data.

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Source: idealawg, 3 September 2009

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on September 04, 2009 (boomark / email).