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Clay Shirky: Information Overload Is Filter Failure

O'Reilly · Talk · 24 min · 2008 · YouTube title: Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
Why it's here

HN invokes it as a reframing of the information overload problem, often when discussing content filtering, tagging and curation.

What it covers

Clay Shirky argues at Web 2.0 Expo NY that the problem online is not information overload but filter failure. He says the real challenge is building better ways to filter and organize what we see.