Maladies of Internet 2.0: Conversation Overload is Worse than Information Overload

Published: August 7, 2007, 10:00 am

Maladies of Internet 2.0: Conversation Overload is Worse than Information Overload [Here in Silicon Valley it sometimes feels as if we are canaries in a coal mine…] By Tom Foremski With the first phase of the Internet a common issue was one of “information overload.” In this second phase of the Internet, which is marked by the use of two-way media technologies such as blogging, the issue will be one of “conversation overload.” I can deal with information overload I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I can/will never be able to read/know all the things I think I should read/know. I can live with that. But, conversation overload is different, because I *want* to have all these conversations. They are important to me. These conversations are in email; they are in the comments written by readers of SVW and left on this and other sites; there are phone conversations to respond to; there are conversations with my kids, with my

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