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Combating Online Information Overload

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By David Bullock

Online information overload is a problem that few of us think about, but we feel the affects of it every day.

I got a lesson in TMI (Too Much Information) yesterday. As I was watching my little one read, she reminded me of the importance of learning what is important and useful in the information-gathering process.

To make a long story very short, while reading a passage in a book, my daughter got upset. As I asked her what was going on she said, “I just read for five minutes and they could have told me the whole story in 30 seconds.” Immediately, I taught her how to scan for important information using a “keyword-like” method.

And of course this got me thinking…

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