The amount of information stored and available today is astounding. Consider the following:

...a weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England.

           Richard Wurman, Information Anxiety. 1989.

Shawn Callahan mentions this in his great presentation on how work really gets done.

Mark Nelson covers this in more detail inWe Have the Information You Want, But Getting It Will Cost You: Being Held Hostage by Information Overload.

To help address this challenge of organizing finding the right information at the right time, Web 2.0 technologies have emerged. You can read the 16-page paper What Is Web 2.0? -- Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation by O'Reilly.

Or better yet, watch the quick 4-minute video Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/Ing Us.

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