What We Learned When 25,000 People Tried to Fight Information Overload
Note to Self
WNYC Studios
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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What we learned through a week of experimenting with information overload interventions.
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| 0:00.0 | My focus will be to study French. I have four blogs that are sent to me weekly with tips |
| 0:10.6 | and exercises and all of those have been stored in outlook and not touched for months |
| 0:17.6 | and months. Thank you so much for this idea. I am so impressed with taking information |
| 0:24.2 | overload seriously. |
| 0:30.0 | It's note to self, the tech show about being human. I'm a new summer Odie. That was Beth |
| 0:39.7 | Gersh Nessik in Ardley, New York. She and over 25,000 other people did our project last |
| 0:48.1 | week. |
| 0:49.1 | Info magical! Yes, super silly name, but I still love it. The plan was to confront our |
| 0:55.6 | information overload, see if we could find focus again and make meaning of all the wonderful |
| 1:02.1 | things coming out of the various screens that surround us. So did it work? Today we find |
| 1:09.8 | out. We dive into the stories and the data and see where we go from here. If you didn't |
| 1:16.7 | do infomagical, you'll still find what we learned fascinating. And you can still do |
| 1:22.0 | the project. More about that in a bit. |
| 1:24.0 | Claudia Riggs, Lafayette Columnett from Queen, Eric Boreffordy, from Althadena, Calabria, |
| 1:31.0 | and Tanesha Speeple, who committed to spending five days experimenting with us, were all |
| 1:37.0 | over the place. Every single time zone on the planet was represented. This is Sally from |
| 1:42.8 | Sydney, Australia. |
| 1:44.0 | Claudia from Portugal. |
| 1:45.0 | Christian from Tulan, Norway. |
| 1:46.0 | Laura from the United Kingdom. Rachel here from Canada, Alina, Florence, Italy, as with |
| 1:51.0 | every US state. |
| 1:52.0 | Julia to Florida, the Alabama. |
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