Comments on: Broken filters? http://www.spreadingscience.com/2009/01/15/broken-filters/ Science 2.0 and beyond Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: David Crotty http://www.spreadingscience.com/2009/01/15/broken-filters/#comment-3969 David Crotty Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:02:57 +0000 http://www.spreadingscience.com/?p=479#comment-3969 I've added a Part 2 addendum to the posting, hopefully clarifying my point: http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/2009/01/16/information-overload-part-2/ I’ve added a Part 2 addendum to the posting, hopefully clarifying my point:
http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/2009/01/16/information-overload-part-2/

]]> By: David Crotty http://www.spreadingscience.com/2009/01/15/broken-filters/#comment-3968 David Crotty Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:26:57 +0000 http://www.spreadingscience.com/?p=479#comment-3968 What I'm trying to say is that it's not that hard to find interesting papers--we have lots of methods for this, both online and off. The problem is that there is a real "information overload", that there are too many interesting and valuable papers that directly impact upon our research. There's more one needs to know, there's more one needs to follow. It can't just be filtered out and discarded, it must be assimilated. And that's the real "information overload", and it can't be fixed by any sort of filtering. More research is being done than ever, more is being published than ever. Shouldn't it be obvious that it's harder to keep up with the good stuff since there's more of it? What I’m trying to say is that it’s not that hard to find interesting papers–we have lots of methods for this, both online and off. The problem is that there is a real “information overload”, that there are too many interesting and valuable papers that directly impact upon our research. There’s more one needs to know, there’s more one needs to follow. It can’t just be filtered out and discarded, it must be assimilated.

And that’s the real “information overload”, and it can’t be fixed by any sort of filtering. More research is being done than ever, more is being published than ever. Shouldn’t it be obvious that it’s harder to keep up with the good stuff since there’s more of it?

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