Yes it IS Information Overload, Clay Shirky, not only Filter Failure
You can see it on Twitter every day, a year and a half after he coined it: Clay Shirky’s famous Filter Failure meme, “It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure”. It’s catchy. It’s thought-provoking. And yet, I believe, it’s also misleading. This meme started with an excellent keynote Clay gave at Web 2.0 Expo NY in late 2008, and I strongly recommend you watch the video if you haven’t already: it’s very insightful and interesting. If you’re too overloaded to spend 23 minutes, some of the ideas are also in a CJR interview here. To sum it up, Clay says.. Read more