I deliberately avoided linking to The Memespread Project before because I was turned off by the tagline and read no further -- linking to something just because it says "Spread this Meme: Link to this site. Send it to your friends. Get the word out." seemed kind of lame.
Fortunately, the project had plenty of help without the likes of yours truly, and (as I would have discovered before, had I bothered to read the tiny type on the page) the ensuing link-frenzy was analysed and an report on the results (PDF, 126 kb) published.
I did, however, happily/unwittingly participate in the 23/5 meme -- a much more organic experiment, methinks, in popular link propagation because it wasn't obviously labelled as such. LaughingMeme has his(?) own write-up, page 23, sentence 5: an autopsy
And, while that was going on, I was collecting these links on information flow:
- FaganFinder has a very readable Explanation of RSS, How You Can Use it, and Finding RSS Feeds (spotted via McGee's Musings, and elsewhere)
- Meanwhile, Library Stuff gives props to Michael Fagan's del.icio.us page as being a good source of linkage
- Robin Good links to a list of news sources ranked by Moreover
- Robin also points to Ujiko, a visual search engine that learns from your preferences
- kottke links to PUSH! Kiss your browser goodbye: The radical future of media beyond the Web (from Wired's March 1997 issue) and The Return of Push! (from their May 2004 issue)
- Wired also wonders Will RSS Readers Clog the Web?
- In his article That's Not What I Meant, Dave Pollard looks at information loss during presentations
- Data Cubes are "a type of multidimensional matrix that lets users explore and analyze a collection of data from many different perspectives, usually considering three factors (dimensions) at a time"
- Transform magazine covers using taxonomies for overcoming information overload (via ResourceShelf)
- Overwhelmed yet? How about this Slate article on choice overload? (via del.icio.us)
And, just in case you missed them when they were all the rage a month ago (the links having fallen victim to my Bloglines purge the first time 'round), here are some additional links:
- Can RSS Relieve Information Overload? -- My immediate response as soon as I read this headline: "No."
- Information Overload and Its Discontents
- Newsmap presents the contents of the Google News aggregator in a visual form
- Information overload doesn't really exist because Every Signal Starts Out As Noise