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
It's amusing to reflect that at an earlier stage in the history of the web, information overload was widely held to be a temporary issue.
oliverburkeman.com • Treat your to-read pile like a river, not a bucket
every Internet marketplace.7 It is fundamentally an open-ended network in which filtering and curation (known in other contexts as “management”) happens largely after the fact.
Tim O'Reilly • Wtf?
“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention,” economist Herb Simon
Rob Walker • The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
REDEF ORIGINAL: Age of Abundance: How the Content Explosion will Invert the Media Industry
Matthew Ballredef.com