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.
Andrey Miroshnichenko • Human as Media. The Emancipation of Authorship
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.
Nicholas Carr • ROUGH TYPE
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What good is it to have all of the world’s knowledge at your fingertips if you don’t have the bandwidth to prioritize it, or the expertise to know if it is competent? At one time we had a scarcity of information, but today our attention is in the midst of a massive DDOS (distributed denial of service) attack.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Building a social knowledge base with Knovigator
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Filter-then-publish rested on a scarcity of media that is a thing of the past. The only working system is publish-then-filter.
Clay Shirky • Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
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“Knowledge itself is power,” Francis Vacon wrote in the sixteenth century, but in the Internet era, sorting knowledge might be even more powerful. Information is now easy to find in abundance; making sense of it, knowing which information is useful, is much harder.
— Filterworld, Kyle Chayka
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Technology for producing and distributing information is useless without some way to locate, filter, organize and summarize it. A new profession of “information managers” will have to combine the skills of computer scientists, librarians, publishers and database experts to help us discover and manage information. These human agents will work with s
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