Clay Shirky talk on information overload, privacy, and an engagement gone bad on Facebook.

             What I love about Clay Shirky is his ability to get to the heart of an issue and put it into perspective.  For most journalists today, especially tech writers, perspective is "the last five years".  For Shirky it's the last five hundred.

Shirky talks about that the "information overload" sense that we all have, the history of it, and looks at it in a different way.  There's also an entertaining story about an engagement on Facebook gone bad.

Take a few minutes out and watch his speech on information overload, filter failure, and privacy from a recent conference speech.

Comments

[Henry Lewkowicz]

Indeed, the issue of filtering information is at the heart of the battle for information quality and usability. In my product development work I focus on providing instant summarization and context for filtering and reducing information to the very essential points. In practice less is more and instantly finding the key sentences helps us with comprehension.

We need help with getting to the point, seeing information through the prism (filter) of context, forming quick mind map and only then deciding on the details.