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Filtering v. Information Overload (w/ Privacy Sprinkles)- Shirky
By Brian Rowe | February 2, 2010
Great talk, information overload is often related to an inability to filter what comes in. For the longest time had a love/hated relationship BoingBoing, this changed when I learned to filter for Cory and Xeni, and wait for my friends to share other worthy posts. With other blogs I often look for someone like Kevin Donovan or Sarah Davies who do a great job reading through several blogs and sharing the better stuff via tools like Google Readers shared /w a note function. The fact that people like Kevin and Sarah are willing to share with thier friends saves us all time. One of the keys to managing your information is finding tools that allow you to leverage your network to filter the ever growing stream of new information.
Filtering & privacy points:
“facebook has the best expressed and best executed privacy management tools on any network”
“the problem is managing your privacy preferences is an unnatural act”
“Privacy was inefficiency in the system”
I strongly agree the current systems is extremely good at sharing information, what I call sharing others may (especially lawyers but not usually techie geeks) call a violation of privacy. This does not look good for privacy, the cost of filtering out information is so much higher then the cost of production and distribution that something has to give. Although when privacy and free speech come into conflict, I am almost always on the side of free speech.
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