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SXSW? Forget About It | Cheeky Fresh — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:58:46 +0000

[...] information doesn’t mean better knowledge. Thus, as Clay Shirky famously quipped, “It’s not information overload, it’s filter [...]

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Information Overload: How Do You Filter? » The Buzz Bin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:11:03 +0000

[...] weeks ago, I had the opportunity to listen to Clay Shirky’s keynote on information overload. Several of his points made perfect sense to the audience since many (like me) were people who are constantly [...]

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pierreyann.org » links for 2008-09-27 — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 13:01:27 +0000

[...] It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. | PSFK – Trends, Ideas & Inspiration the issue is not information overload, it’s the failure of filtering systems. Shirky believes that information overload has been around since the invention of the printing press, and it’s nothing really new. What is the issue, is in the forms and flows that information is now taking. When information is coming and going at and from you from so many different directions, the social systems and filters that used to manage the flows breakdown from stress. He says we need to re-think a lot of things, including social norms, to understand and deal with all the new ways of living technology has provided. (tags: technology innovation information) [...]