Group:
electronic mail
Group:
information
Topic:
computer as an intelligent agent
Topic:
electronic news and blogs
Topic:
fisheye views in the user interface
Topic:
hypertext subsets, webs, and contexts
Topic:
information filters
Topic:
personal information
Topic:
problems with cognitive overhead of hypertext
Topic:
problems with information retrieval
Topic:
restricted electronic mail
Topic:
semistructured messages for automated processing
Topic:
using a computer as a communication/information medium
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Summary
Information accumulates at an ever increasing rate, while our ability to understand and process information improves slowly. Computers and the Web help process information, yet themselves produce an explosion of messages and articles.
Newspaper and journal editors organize and prioritize information. (cbb 11/07)
Subtopic: rapid growth in information 
| Quote: rapid expansion of the summation of human experience but primitive means to explore it [»bushV7_1945]
| | Quote: the amount of chemical literature in 13 years (from 1963) will be more than all that was published before [»skolH_1963]
| | Quote: the greatest heritage of the chemical profession is the literature; but its size, growth, and complexity is endangering its role [»skolH_1963]
| | Quote: long-duration messages can only be processed as short-duration ones [»goodFL_1981]
| | Quote: rapid expansion in long-duration messages; can appear as short-duration messages [»goodFL_1981]
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Subtopic: rapid growth in short-duration messages
| Quote: many messages, mail, and documents received each day by Denning [»dennPJ3_1982]
| | Quote: information overload from simultaneous, electronic discussions, conferences and conversations [»hiltSR7_1985]
| | Quote: average lab member received fifty messages a day [»kentJ8_1988]
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Subtopic: archiving mail
| Quote: archiver-type users of electronic mail try to read and file everything; many distribution lists; problems with finding old mail [»mackWE10_1988]
| | Quote: out-of-control users of electronic mail are archivers, read mail often, read and often file everything, keep a large inbox; and can't find messages [»mackWE10_1988]
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Subtopic: new users and information overload
| Quote: information overload occurs primarily with new users [»hiltSR7_1985]
| | Quote: new users try to read everything [»hiltSR7_1985]
| | Quote: new users of Netnews are swapped by unread news; problem disappears when catch up and unsubscribe to unuseful newsgroups [»hortMR9_1986]
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Subtopic: prioritized email
| Quote: those happy and successful with electronic mail keep their inboxes small, don't read all messages, and use few folders and distribution lists [»mackWE10_1988]
| | Quote: prioritizer-type users of electronic mail do not read all mail, read only a few times a day, and use few mail folders [»mackWE10_1988]
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Subtopic: newsgroups
| Quote: what conversational strategies do newsgroup users employ for redundant or irrelevant postings?; FAQs, long messages, no cross-posting
| | Quote: Netnews may collapse if administrators must limit newsgroups and their transmission [»bishM10_1986]
| | Quote: avoid creating newsgroups in Netnews since sites may not forward it [»bishM10_1986]
| | Quote: problem of Netnews is that same question is answered many times [»bishM10_1986]
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Subtopic: periodicals, processed information
| Quote: we need humans between us and the flood of information; i.e., editors who sift and select information [»dvorJC3_1997]
| | Quote: need filtering service like periodicals for electronic mail [»schrMD2_1984]
| | Quote: Andrew has magazines that are moderated bulletin boards [»boreN2_1988]
| Quote: need a structure to distinguish useful for unuseful messages
[»hiltSR7_1985]
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Related Topics
Group: electronic mail (12 topics, 170 quotes)
Group: information (46 topics, 1160 quotes)
Topic: computer as an intelligent agent (49 items)
Topic: electronic news and blogs (25 items)
Topic: fisheye views in the user interface (16 items)
Topic: hypertext subsets, webs, and contexts (12 items)
Topic: information filters (22 items)
Topic: personal information (41 items)
Topic: problems with cognitive overhead of hypertext (20 items)
Topic: problems with information retrieval (51 items)
Topic: restricted electronic mail (3 items)
Topic: semistructured messages for automated processing (22 items)
Topic: using a computer as a communication/information medium
(32 items)
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