Clay Shirky: "[T]here is no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure, right? Which is to say the normal case of modern life is information overload for all educated members of society. If you took the contents of an average Barnes and Noble, and you dumped it into the streets and said to someone, 'You know what’s in there? There’s some works of Auden in there, there’s some Plato in there. Wade on in and you’ll find what you like.' And if you wade on in, you know what you’d get? You’d get Chicken Soup for the Soul." Read More...