http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:16:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/are-algorithms-the-new-gatekeepers-of-knowledge.html Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:19:59 +0000 Tools which help us manage information overload may do us harm in the long term.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/02/86729.html Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:36:14 +0000 Complexity has become an excuse for some businesspeople to preserve the status quo, to abandon thinking ahead and to push strategy to one side, because they don't believe it can be flexible and responsive enough to help them in a rapidly changing world.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/this-week-in-brand-strategy-advertising-14.html Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:42:46 +0000 PSFK curates some of the brand strategy, digital and creative advertising news and ideas that caught our attention this past week.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/digital-tool-overload.html Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:36:24 +0000 An e-learning expert on why too many online tools work contrary for a learner.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/09/twitter-can-scale-better-than-email-says-ceo-evan-williams.html Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:31:22 +0000 Twitter's CEO shares his views on the impact of information overload on the company.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/07/daily-meditation-could-increase-attention-span.html Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:24:51 +0000 New research on the benefits of relaxing and focusing the mind.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/03/the-benefits-and-challenges-of-superabundant-information.html Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:44:25 +0000 How do we manage the ever-growing amounts of digital information that are being produced today? ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2010/01/the-key-difference-between-decisive-and-indecisive-people.html Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:15:25 +0000 Wesleyan University has released a study looking to understand how some people are more decisive than others.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/a-new-perspective-on-information-overload-information-as-matter.html Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:48:36 +0000 Information and user-experience theorist Thomas Peterson has proposed some fascinating ideas on how to deal with the overwhelming amount of data in the world and our limited capacity to consume it.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/12/how-much-is-enough.html Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:05:52 +0000 Merlin Mann asks the important question - how much information is enough?]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/11/video-the-coming-challenges-of-the-pervasive-computing-era.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:29:43 +0000 MAYA Design has created a thought provoking video that concisely explores the coming challenges of the pervasive computing era. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/11/the-importance-of-forgetting.html Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:54:06 +0000 Researchers at Vanderbuilt University have conducted experiments which explore ways of filtering information.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/10/how-do-we-curb-infobesity.html Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:05:48 +0000 Timothy Young, founder of Socialcast has written a thoughtful essay in which he compares information consumption habits to food consumption habits.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/the-need-for-better-knowledge-architecture.html Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:14:51 +0000 Grant McCracken wrote a salient blog post recently that discusses the difficulties of keeping up with all the information there is to keep up with. He voices the need for better “knowledge architecture” – new services that can discover, aggregate, filter and organize information in ways that are relevant, and make sense for individual users. Grant talks about this need for better knowledge design: The upshot of this conversation for me was that a market in the information space is emerging.  I won’t pay anything for access to the New York Times.  This is an interesting aggregator, but it’s wayRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/video-linda-stone-on-continuous-partial-attention.html Fri, 20 Feb 2009 17:08:37 +0000 Linda Stone at Gel 2006 from Gel Conference on Vimeo Writer and consultant Linda Stone, who coined the phrase “continuous partial attention”, shares some thoughts on the effects of pervasive digital technology in a newly released Gel video (above). Economist Justin Wehr has pulled out some salient quotes (from Via founder Dee Hock) that Stone uses in the presentation: Noise becomes data when it has a cognitive pattern. Data becomes information when it’s assembled into a coherent whole, which can be related to other information. Information becomes knowledge when it’s integrated with other information in a form useful for makingRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/how-our-brains-are-affected-by-info-overload.html Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:23:26 +0000 It’s become a truism that our interactions with technology are changing the way we think and act. But the big question is how exactly we’re being changed. Some say it’s evolving us into higher functioning humans, while others claim our hyper-multitasking and reliance on technology as an outboard brain is dumbing us way down. Another missive from the negative camp has come around -Maggie Jackson, Author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, says that our ability to deeply focus and pay attention is being swept away by our “cybercentric” society. She claims that attention isRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/nvdrs-cassette-tape-designing-limitations-to-manage-digital-abundance.html Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:38:47 +0000 These days, designers are looking for ways to add tactile experience and analog physicality to devices that have become virtual and digital. Looking to create interfaces beyond flat touchscreens, they are embracing the clunky and perhaps flawed, but tangible aesthetic of the past. The NVDRS Cassette Tape concept design utilizes this old-is-new mentality. It’s a digital music player, that uses limitations and physical movement to create a unique music listening experience. Keeping with the 45/60/90 minute limits of traditional cassette tapes, the NVDRS forces you to carefully select the songs you’d like to hear, and not just dump thousands uponRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/an-experiment-for-dealing-with-media-overload.html Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:44:08 +0000 What’s the best way to sort, wade through and make sense of the oceans of digital media that’s stored on our hard drives? Inspired by musician Bill Drummond’s experiment of only listening to music starting with B for a year, Russell Davies is testing out the same filtering strategy on a compressed scale. In order to deeply engage with new music, and learn to pay attention in a new way, Davies is only listening to music starting with the same letter of the alphabet, one letter a week. He explains: I find that unless I trick myself into paying attentionRead more...]]>