Tag Archives: information overload

Thanks For Sharing; Gratitude to Social Recommendation and Cool Friends

Autumn Hand | 01 November 2011, 10:18 pm | tags: , , , , ,

“Knowledge sharing and creation is at the heart of innovation in all fields – science, art and business – and innovation is the driving force for wealth creation… Information can be transferred in great torrents, without any understanding or knowledge being generated. Knowledge cannot be transferred; it can only be enacted, through a process of understanding, through which people interpret information and make judgements on the basis of it. … Great tides of information wash over us every day. We do not need more information, we need more understanding.” Charles Leadbeater, Living on Thin Air, 2000.

qwiki – can linear narratives still be relevant in hyperlinked contexts?

Daniel Luiz dos Santos | 22 October 2011, 3:02 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Some time has passed since the official launch of qwiki (see the Masters of Media Blog initial impressions). Although still in alpha, a more profound critique can be put forward as the platform evolved and opened itself to users.

Qwiki will be launched soon, what should we expect?

olga paraskevopoulou | 26 October 2010, 8:41 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Qwiki is the award winning start up in the TechCrunch Disrupt, San Francisco. It is founded by Doug Imbruce and Luis Monier and promises to offer a new information exprerience and to solve the problem of the information overload. What should we expect?

Twitter Research Supported by Info Visualisation

Jidi Guo | 07 October 2010, 5:26 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Everyday users of Twitter users provide the world with us with of tweets on topics differing from what they ate, how they feel to what music they listen to. This is a great source for researchers who want to look deeper into certain topics of interest. The question is only how to organize and present all this information and…

Is Twitter Gonna Kill Us?

Jelle Kamsma | 09 October 2009, 12:49 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , ,

“Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us.” – Jean Baudrillard

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New media like Twitter often endure a lot of criticism. A lot of these critical remarks can…

Aphoristic message (overload?) by a CMC world

Sander Leegwater | 08 October 2009, 10:08 pm | tags: , , , ,

Communication is as old as humans (or humanoids) itself, from a grunt, a shout to a simple gesture – we have always had the ability to convey messages to others around us – whether we’re correctly understood is a whole other matter. ‘Aphorisms’ (the ability to make short, powerful and easy to remember messages) “have been around…

TweetDeck: A Cyberspace Odyssey

| 10 April 2009, 11:20 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , ,

Some people get very nervous using Twitter; they find the constant stream of (seemingly) unimportant personal exclamations incredibly annoying. They say: how on Earth are you supposed to keep track of all that information? Well, those people should try using TweetDeck, a desktop application meant to organise your Twitter activities. If you think regular is Twitter a lot of information…