Information Overload

A thoughtful article JB pointed out about information overload. I don’t think I can part with my filters!

http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2011/03/situational_ove.php

If, as Shirky argues, improved filters will reduce overload, then why haven't they done so up until now? Why don't we feel that information overload is subsiding as a problem rather than getting worse? The reason, I've come to believe, is that Shirky's formulation gets it precisely backwards. Better filters don't mitigate information overload; they intensify it. It would be more accurate to say: "It's not information overload. It's filter success."