Clay Shirky on Information Filter Function

• Clay Shirky on Information Filter Function

  We have had info overload since the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century what has changed now is this: the old filters are breaking, designing new filters doesn't just mean updating the old filters.

  tags: information, overload, filtering, social, networking, stories

http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/

Failure of the filter

eg spam

    not abouit increase in volume, but a failure of filter

    

 All filter solutions are temporary

 

 You have to assume that spam will never go away therefore a filtering problem

 

 A general design problem--a social system problem

     Applying to other systems

         former student-FB change--implications/total disaster privacy meltdown.

         Grimmerman?

         managing privacy prefs- an unnatural act

         privacy is a way of managing info flow. 

         slow ripples b4, quakes now

         

Moving from an evolved system into an engineered system

       Our personal life is no longer personal

      " The inefficiency of information flow is not a bug it is a feature."  

      

 Filters are both outbound and inbound--now this is a new idea to me 

 

 A story about the in and out flows of filtered info

 

     Facebook Chemistry Study Grouip_chris avenir

         school charges him.

         147 charges 1 for setting it up and 146 stkudents

         cheating--publication of individual work in a collaborative environment is cheating

         CA response--what about tutoring

         

 Problem

 

     welcome to community ---conversation join us

     or we do qc on their minds.

     collide very difficult

     FB cause the methods to collide

     

 If you have to make that choice you will make the wrong choice.  FB is not a mimeo. it is different in kind not degree

 

 Ryerson says the real groups are just way too big.  FB is free rider tolerant unlike real world.

 

 Our job is to require stukdents to figure things out.  With the unfilter on--well...

 

 The new context:  we are to information overload ::  fish are to the sea  It is just what we swim in.

 

 If you have the same problem for a long time maybe it's not a problem, maybe it's a fact.  Izaak Rabin

 

 No college of future tomorrow            

 

 We have had info overload since the invention of the printing press in the fifteenth century what has changed now is this:  the old filters are breaking,  designing new filters doesn't just mean updating the old filters.  

     eg digg voting 

     eg tagging

     

 When you feel overloaded you have to ask now:  what filter just broke,      

 

 

 

 

                

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