One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with. Marshall McLuhanEdy Portmann is engaged in intelligently managing today's information overload. For this purpose, he uses a triangulation of methods, applications and tools originating mainly from computer and information science, as well as business and economics and social sciences.On our way to a knowledge society, relevant information needs to be extracted from raw data (e.g., from Web, corporations, etc.), which in the end will help to expand knowledge of a single entity (e.g., AI Industry Executivess, citizens, etc.) for one thing and the entire society (e.g., business, government, etc.) for another.In order to contrive that, he analyzes search architectures, experiences, interactions, and patterns (e.g., from/on Google, Siri, etc.). Thereby his focus is on social software (e.g., Facebook, Wikipedia, etc.), from which collective inte