1. information overload
Jason Eiseman
Librarian for Emerging Technologies
Yale Law School

4. it’s not information
overload it’s filter failure
photo: jeremybrooks on flickr
at http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremybrooks/2294396074/

5. “One of the diseases of this age, is the multitude of Books, that
doth so overcharge the worlde, that it is not able to disgest the
abundance of idle matter that is every day hatched and brought
into the world, that are as divers in their formes, as their Authors
be in their faces.”
Barnabe Rich - 1610

6. “We have reason to fear that the multitude of books which grows
every day in a prodigious fashion will make the following centuries
fall into a state as barbarous as that of the centuries that followed
the fall of the Roman Empire. Unless we try to prevent this danger
by separating those books which we must throw out or leave in
oblivion from those which one should save and within the latter
between what is useful and what is not.”
Adrien Baillet - 1685

7. attention problem

8. continuous partial attention

9. continuous partial attention
vs.
multitasking

10. attention economy

11. attention economy game
created by professor ulises mejias at SUNY Oswego
at http://blog.ulisesmejias.com/2008/02/22/attention-economy-the-game/

12. your attention is a
valuable resource

13. your attention is a
finite resource

14. you can’t pay attention
to everyone/everything
so stop trying

15. return on investment (roi)

16. who, what, where,
when, why (and how)
of information sources

17. who?

18. coworkers
professional colleagues
colleagues I know
colleagues I don’t know
friends (real or online)

19. what?

20. industry news
tutorials
case studies
product updates
sales information

21. where?

22. professional journals
listservs
blogs
news sites
social media

23. when?

24. real time
daily
weekly
monthly

25. why?

26. interesting
critical to your job
support the organization’s mission

27. how

28. choose your home,
where you’ll live

29. email
google reader
twitter

30. continuous process

31. make information come
to you

32. filtering information

33. scanning vs. reading

34. choose a system

38. store for later

39. tools

40. desktop search

46. email

55. saving to the cloud

63. RSSrss icon pillow on etsy
at http://www.etsy.com/listing/25954942/rss-icon-pillow

64. google reader

66. twitter & other
social networks

69. discovery tools
and aggregators

79. further reading

86. questions?
jasoneiseman@gmail.com
@jeiseman
http://slideshare.net/jeiseman