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Collection of Links: Information Overload
A good backgrounder from infogineering.net. Understanding Information Overload.
Information Overload White Paper Information Overload: We Have Met the Enemy and He is Us via Basex/Jonathan Spira et. al. and the Information Overload Resource Center online repository.
A business perspective. Get a Grip on the Information Overload via The Globe and Mail.
Wired provides some links to information overload essays in Information Overload Is Not a New Problem.
A personal viewpoint. JAMES ALTUCHER: This Is Why Multitasking Will Kill You via Business Insider.
An argument from Brian Solis positing that “information overload is a symptom of over consumption and the inability to refine online experiences based on interest and importance” in The Fallacy of Information Overload.
Digital Stress and Your Brain Infographic via OnlineUniversities.com.
If You Love Documentaries…
“Documentary Heaven is a free site that has organized more than 1600 documentary films found across the Internet. Through Documentary Heaven can find documentaries covering all kinds of topics in science, history, politics, business, and many more categories. The videos are sourced from a variety of services including, but not limited to, YouTube.”
via Free Technology for Teachers: 7 Places to Find & Watch Documentaries Online.
Collection of Links: Big Data
Big data is almost on the cusp of the emerging technology hype cycle according to the Gartner 2012 Hype Cycle and according to Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2012 (PCMAG.com). What is the ‘big’ deal with big data anyways? Below I have posted links to information resources highlighting a range of issues related to big data.
Gartner defines big data as…”the term adopted by the market to describe extreme information management and processing issues which exceed the capability of traditional information technology along one or multiple dimensions to support the use of the information assets. Throughout 2010 and into 2011, big data has focused primarily on the volume issues of extremely large datasets generated from technology practices such as social media, operational technology, Internet logging and streaming sources. A wide array of hardware and software solutions have emerged to address the partial issue of volume.”
The Data Drive Life by Gary Wolf (April 28, 2010) is a great backgrounder article on how we have come to generate more and more data in our daily lives.
Big Data/Linked Data White Paper from Fujitsu, March 2012
Business Perspective
From Harvard Business Review. The Next Wave of Process Strategy, October 30, 2012 and Big Data Hype (and Reality), October 18, 2012
Significance to Libraries
Data Science: What’s in it for the New Librarian? from Information Space, July 16, 2012
Big data is also about the Internet of Things and Linked Data. Linked Data for Libraries OCLC Video posted August 7, 2012
Defining the “Big” in Big Data by Leslie Johnston at the Library of Congress, May 17, 2012
Importance to Other Industries
Big Data and social media: A match made in heaven? posted October 23, 2012 at the TechRepublic
Big Data is Transforming Healthcare from Wired Science, October 16, 2012
Software
Big Data Meets BI: Beyond The Hype from Information Week, October 30, 2012
Lists some of the other open source software in the big data space (versus Hadoop) Big Data Right Now: Five Trendy Open Source Technologies from TechCrunch, October 27, 2012
Stephen’s Lighthouse — Connected Learning Resources and Infographic
PCMag.com | News & Opinion — Harvard, MIT to Offer Free Online Classes
Harvard, MIT to Offer Free Online Classes | News & Opinion | PCMag.com.
Quotable: “EdX courses will be available to anyone with an Internet connection…The first set of courses will be announced this summer, and begin in the fall of 2012.”
Interaction-Design.org — Free Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
Interaction-Design.org — Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
Great resource with 25 different chapters so far ranging on topics such as User Experience and Experience Design, End-User Development and Semiotics.
Quotable from the Website: “We’re on a mission to make free and open educational materials: There are so many great minds in the Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design community and we want to empower these authors to reach all their interested readers around the world. We believe these authors have the minds to change the world and deserve a publishing venue truly designed for the author and the reader, not the publisher and the profit.”
The Digital Shift: Sarah Ludwig’s Picks: Top Tech Tools
Sarah Ludwig’s Picks: Top Tech Tools — The Digital Shift.
Social bookmarking, citation, collaboration, programming and blogging tools are highlighted.
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