Modern life causes brain overload, study finds - Telegraph

Modern life causes brain overload -
wealth of media in modern life means the average person is bombarded with enough information every day to overload a laptop computer

Book Case

Great review of Darton's 'The Case for Books' in THES this week by Andreas Hess. "Books will remain the most important storage container of the written word...the new reading toys are not sand-,water-or wine resistant (traditional books don't like those three elements either, but may survive exposure to them)."

Savvy Citizens: 80% of Brits are not ‘information savvy citizens’

80% of Brits are not ‘information savvy citizens’ from the Information World Review

"Only 20% of Britons are information “savvy citizens” – citizens who not only know how to access information but also know how to use information and information technology to their advantage"

The Chartered Institute for IT, the BCS, commissioned the research and have created a new web microsite - Savvycitizens.bcs.org, "It is hoped people will contribute to the site and share their knowledge."

As well as the micro-site, there is also a Twitter stream @SavvyCitizens [http://www.twitter.com/savvycitizens], and a quiz at: http://apps.facebook.com/savvycitizensquiz/.