The Daily Infoglut

Each day, at a minimum:
[ ] The Library of Congress catalogues 7,000 new items.
[ ] 2000 books are published world wide.
[ ] More than 2,000 new websites go online.

Too Much Information

* More than 1,000 new magazines were launched in the U.S. in the last two years, and within two years most of them will fail.
* There are more than ten times the number of radio stations today than when televison was first introduced.
* All told, more books and articles are published in ONE day than you could comfortably read in the rest of your life.

Unrelenting Information Overload

Information overload abounds in our society:

* In the last 12 months, 165,000 books were published just in the U.S.

* 1,100 new magazines were launched.

* 720,000 network and cablecast programs were broadcast.

* 650 films were produced.

* The Smithsonian Institution added 1,200,000 items to its collection.

Is it any wonder that you are experiencing information overload, which results in wasted time, poor decision-making, and stress?