THE VIDEO SHELF · information filtering
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN invokes it as a reframing of the information overload problem, often when discussing content filtering, tagging and curation.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- O'Reilly
- Topic
- information filtering
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2010–2024
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From the original HN conversations
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yay for clay and the middle way. he reminds me of uncle ben: "with great power comes great responsibility." he has a similarly level response to the problem of information overload (instead, filter failure): [VIDEO]
pkghost on Hacker News · 2010-09
In How to disconnect from your online lifeTed Nelson's Computers for Cynics probably doesn't contain technical information that's new to any of you, but Ted has a knack for reframing things in ways that make the arbitrariness of certain historical decisions clear: [LINK] On the subject of hypertext, The Web That Wasn't …
enkiv2 on Hacker News · 2018-04
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