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Shirky: Problem is filter failure, not info overload
One of the video presentations of American media thinker Clay Shirky is entitled It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.[31] The problem is not the volume or quality of information, but the filter quality.
from Human as media. The emancipation of authorship by Andrey Miroshnichenko
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
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- Bottom line: When the amount of information available to be filtered is effectively unlimited, as is the case on the Net, then every improvement in the quality of filters will make information overload worse.
from ROUGH TYPE by Nicholas Carr
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