Comments on: Clay Shirky on Information Overload http://www.bits-bytes-2.com/clay-shirky-on-information-overload Tech advice for entrepreneurs, small business owners, and marketing professionals Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:27:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Justin JDOG Marks http://www.bits-bytes-2.com/clay-shirky-on-information-overload/comment-page-1#comment-3834 Justin JDOG Marks Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:30:53 +0000 http://www.bits-bytes-2.com/?p=125#comment-3834 Hey Chris.. just read Clay's interview, and left a comment, agreeing with you about it not entirely being technically a filtering problem, rather a paradox of too much choice. here's the comment I left: Thank you for this fascinating interview, which I found through a blog post by Jay Rosen, after reading one of his tweets. I do have to agree with Chris Colón's comment though that it's not simply a challenge of implementing innovative filtering. Absolutely this is a significant part of it. However, in a similar fashion to many people I know, I find information through the new media channels extremely quickly, granted many who are less technically savvy don’t, which IS a filtering problem. New media showers you with endless connects to more content, and some people have better filtering abilities than others, and better screening abilities to choose their preferred (or higher quality) content. So it’s really a paradox of choice, and a matter of having self discipline perhaps. This is rather different than say, when in a library or book store where you may pickup several books on a subject to skim through. Cheers.. J! Hey Chris.. just read Clay’s interview, and left a comment, agreeing with you about it not entirely being technically a filtering problem, rather a paradox of too much choice.

here’s the comment I left:
Thank you for this fascinating interview, which I found through a blog post by Jay Rosen, after reading one of his tweets. I do have to agree with Chris Colón’s comment though that it’s not simply a challenge of implementing innovative filtering. Absolutely this is a significant part of it. However, in a similar fashion to many people I know, I find information through the new media channels extremely quickly, granted many who are less technically savvy don’t, which IS a filtering problem.

New media showers you with endless connects to more content, and some people have better filtering abilities than others, and better screening abilities to choose their preferred (or higher quality) content. So it’s really a paradox of choice, and a matter of having self discipline perhaps. This is rather different than say, when in a library or book store where you may pickup several books on a subject to skim through.

Cheers.. J!

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