Information Overload (IO) is a buzzword that gets tossed around, but it has some meat behind it. I rarely think of IO without remembering the KISS principle. I wrote an article that will be coming out in an internal publication on how I handle IO in realtion to email. Maybe next month I'll write a cooresponding article on handling news sources.

Anyway, IO seems to be getting harder to get away from. I feel like the world expects me to know so much and there is still more things that I want to know. Eventually something has to be sacrificed. Yesterday, I realized that my attention to the weather was one of the sacrificial lambs of my IO management efforts. Allentown had 1-3 inches of wintery mix. Mostly that was sleet and freezing rain. That morning it hadn't quite started when I went out to the car to head over here to the home office. It was oddly quiet. Normally, school students would be whooping and hollering at each other as they approached the school one block down from our apartment. None of that was happening and I didn't put much thought to why, just noticed it. When I got to work, there was talk of some yucky weather and around 10:30 I headed home because the roads were getting miserable.

Should my IO management methods include a way to track the weather report? The problem I have with the weather reports is that they change frequently. Is there a way to easily get the weather report for tomorrow through email or RSS? I'd like to not depend on television or going out to a website for it. I'd also like this not to take more than 2 minutes out of my day. How do other people keep track of the weather without spending odd amounts of time on it?

What do you think?