Comments on: Episode 09 – Too Much Information https://digitalcampus.tv/2007/07/episode-09-too-much-information/ A discussion of how digital media and technology are affecting learning, teaching, and scholarship at colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:51:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 By: Building the Ultimate (English) Academic Web Browser | Digital // Literate https://digitalcampus.tv/2007/07/episode-09-too-much-information/#comment-36 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:51:31 +0000 http://digitalcampus.tv/2007/07/03/episode-09-too-much-information/#comment-36 […] information coming at us every day is now a matter of fact; it’s a topic of books, articles, and podcasts. It’s far too soon to declare the Internet/Web an inherently untamable medium, but that still […]

]]> By: Henry Lewkowicz https://digitalcampus.tv/2007/07/episode-09-too-much-information/#comment-35 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:05:49 +0000 http://digitalcampus.tv/2007/07/03/episode-09-too-much-information/#comment-35 Hi,
It is true that information is pouring faster and faster. To deal with this challenge one can use a) software that extracts and summarizes the essential facts and b) software that visualizes the text information (like MindManager).

One can also combine automatic text summarization with visualization. In the past few years I have been working on both aspects. For anyone who would like to get their web pages and Google searches instantly summarized I can point to Context Organizer (http://www.contextdiscovery.com).

Another improvement can be to apply scripts that summarize large number of search results and report to the user. This way the user takes advantage of a summarizing robot that spiders large number of pages and extracts only the topics that are of interest to the user.

Large amount of information is a good thing providing that we have more practical ways to take advantage of it.

Best regards,

Henry

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