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Todd Suomela

Slaw: Combating Information Overload - 0 views

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shared by Todd Suomela on 13 May 08 - Cached
  • 1) The History of Information Overload One thing I discovered was that our current situation may not be that unique. Some interesting research (see the bibliography at the end of this post for the articles in the Journal of the History of Ideas) points out that since the 1200’s – but more particularly after the implementation of Gutenberg’s printing press – people have been complaining about information overload.
  • One thing I discovered was that our current situation may not be that unique. Some interesting research (see the bibliography at the end of this post for the articles in the Journal of the History of Ideas) points out that since the 1200’s – but more particularly after the implementation of Gutenberg’s printing press – people have been complaining about information overload.
  • 2) The Negative Impact of Information Overload They are numerous studies to suggest that information overload makes us dumber: Persons exposed to excessive amounts of information are less productive, prone to make bad decisions, and risk suffering serious stress-related diseases.
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  • 3) KM Tips and Techniques to Combat Information Overload By definition, KM is the solution to combating information overload. I see there being two major components: a technical solution and a “human” solution. Many of the tips and tricks for combating information overload are relatively trite.
Diego Morelli

Computational Knowledge Engine: Wolfram Alpha - 0 views

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shared by Diego Morelli on 17 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Diego Morelli on 17 Mar 09
     
    The latest project by Stephen Wolfram is defined as the first "computational knowledge engine", something capable of answering factual question for you. The Wolfram engine is described as "a proprietary system based on fields of knowledge, containing terabytes of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms to represent real-world knowledge as we know it".
Diego Morelli

Open Platform for Free Content Launched by the Guardian - 0 views

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shared by Diego Morelli on 10 Mar 09 - Cached
  • Diego Morelli on 10 Mar 09
     
    The Guardian website launched earlier today its new online suite of services called "Open Platform", which will allow web developers to build application using content from the newspaper. The Guardian content APIs being released includes not only articles but also videos, galleries and other content..........
Diego Morelli

Tangible Knowledge & Social Media - 0 views

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shared by Diego Morelli on 22 Jan 10 - Cached
  • Diego Morelli on 22 Jan 10
     
    Here's an interesting description by D. Roberts about social media as a collection of knowledge assets that have to be organized, in order to achieve what he calls "Tangible Knowledge, the Holy grail of finance". Some highlights from my transcription below... (continue...)
Diego Morelli

Semantic Web: Common Tag Announced as a New Format for Development - 0 views

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shared by Diego Morelli on 13 Jun 09 - Cached
  • Diego Morelli on 13 Jun 09
     
    A new format named Common Tag has been developed by major companies operating in the field of the Semantic Web to address the problems related to the ambiguities in Web contents.
Diego Morelli

Web Evolution & Social Media - 0 views

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shared by Diego Morelli on 28 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Diego Morelli on 28 Oct 09
     
    Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks & issues related to libraries. My personal highligths from this work: * The turn from groups to social networks lays the basis for a new social operating system * Being more civically engages on social networks helps building better communities (continue...)
Diego Morelli

Collective Intelligence & Cyberspace - 0 views

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shared by Diego Morelli on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Diego Morelli on 10 Nov 09
     
    Interesting slides, that "introduce the necessity of a new language that can set a link between the machine process of cyberspace and the uman collective intelligence, which is dynamic, in constant change and made in different languages, from different approaches."....
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