http://theequitykicker.disqus.com/Nic Brisbourne’s view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and mediaenFri, 25 Apr 2008 12:17:07 -0000http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/04/22/information-overload-in-the-web-era/#comment-4456081<p>Tks Phil - I get Taleb's point, but when you are in the business of trying to predict where the hype will be in 12-24 months then I don't have the luxury of ignoring the breaking news. In the VC world we thrive on a sometimes uncomfortable blend of fundamentals and froth!</p>nicFri, 25 Apr 2008 12:17:07 -0000http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/04/22/information-overload-in-the-web-era/#comment-4456080<p>Nic - when i started reading your post i was convinced you'd be quoting your latest favourite author (and mine) Nassim Nicholas Taleb. His anti-breaking news attitude because of the terrible 'signal-to-noise' ratio is quite refreshing! I guess he relies on obsessed people like us to filter the news and find the nuggets for him. Phil</p>Phillip HofmeyrFri, 25 Apr 2008 12:08:51 -0000http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/04/22/information-overload-in-the-web-era/#comment-4456079<p>One way to tackle information overload is let the computer do the work for you. There are some really great text summerisation programs on the markey one of which is context organizer. I don't know how it does it but it really does summerise documents, webpages (even blogs) and email all in context.<br><a href="http://www.murge.com/contextorganizer" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.murge.com/contextorganizer">http://www.murge.com/contex...</a></p><p>No more reading pages of information let the program give you the core sentences.</p>AndrewTue, 22 Apr 2008 15:48:41 -0000