Lee Kraus reflects on information overload: "Some talk about this as the signal to noise ratio. How much information do you have to weed through to get to the highly relevant content that you really want?
What I do to produce "incremental relevancy" which I hope leads to incremental productivity improvement is to try to tweak my daily (continual) information management practices through both automation and structure within these communication tools."
I just received my invite to xobni, a program that organizes email, showing relationships between recipients, frequency of email exchange, people I haven't emailed in a while, visualizations of peak email use, rates email relationships by sent/received exchanges, etc. I must say, I'm impressed. These developments are very much in keeping with what I've been saying about technology doing the "grunt cognitive" work for us, displaying patterns, revealing relationships, and allowing us to move to more advanced cognitive tasks (such as "what do these patterns mean?"). We can't keep functioning with the explosive information growth with existing tools. Xobni is a company that understands the need for new methods and approaches based on our changed relationship with information.
Any invites???
Posted by: Will Richardson at December 7, 2007 8:41 PMHi,
Glad to hear you are enjoying Xobni. Completely agree with removing the grunt work and letting our brains do the more advanced cognitive tasks. We've got a lot more in the pipeline that is keeping with that theme.
Thanks for the shout out!
Best,
Matt
Co-founder/Xobni