Information & the Quality of Life is a program at the Information School of the University of Washington which addresses how to balance out the increasing demands of information and technology with a normal, healthy life. They sponsored a recent conference in Seattle, titled Information, Silence and Sanctuary. Here are a few reports following the conference:
- How Info-Overload Experts Unwind -- coverage from Wired
- E-serenity now! -- "Reeling from e-mail, cable TV, and cellphones, info-environmentalists try to reclaim mental green space."
- Unplugging the Addiction to Information Overload -- an article from Washington Post (free registration required)
Meanwhile, in no particular order, here's some other stuff that's crossed my radar recently.
- A two-parter from Emergic.org: Constructing the Memex and Constructing the Memex, Part 2
- Defending the In-Box: The Psychology of Coping with Spam (via del.icio.us)
- How the Word Gets Around -- Wired writes about The Memespread Project
- On your marks, get set, search... -- testing Google against more old-fashioned ways of finding information (via Robin Good)
- Robin also links to this list of Great RSS Tools
- Web Search: On to "Sense-Making" -- "WebFountain is attempting to bring a time axis to Internet search. Today, search engines provide a snapshot of how the Web views a certain topic. But it's largely a medium without a memory. That makes it next to impossible to spot trends or easily analyze how things shift over time" (via Emergic.org)
- Directory of Online Resources for Information Literacy (via Furl user Maria Moriarty)
- Organizing Ideas -- some tips from Whitespace
- Monkeymagic writes about Signals, Noise, and Blogs
- Your say: Personal knowledge management (via Mathemagenic)
- Ton's Interdependent Thoughts discusses The Emergence of Blogging and organized complexity