Information overload’s back end
June 25th, 2007 by David Weinberger
Atif Rafiq, founder of Bazooked, takes the miscellaneous as his starting point for reflections on differences in how users selection information “depending upon where they stand in the consumption lifecycle.” He writes:
As a user begins to get deeper into consumption, choice begins to multiply not because there is any more content out there. When users interact with information, their interests can grow, branch or re-formulate. Initial inspirations may still apply but new ones are brought to light. In other words, interaction grows the possibilities in the mind of the user.
Then the question is how to deal with the user’s need at these different phases. But that’s what Atif’s post is about…
