Shirky: Problem is filter failure, not info overload. I didn't attend the Web 2.0 Expo in New York last year, and so the exceptional keynote speech of Clay Shirky, a New York University new-media professor, writer, and consultant on the social and economic effects of Internet technologies.
The keynote, "It's not information overload. It's filter failure," is an insightful exploration of Internet economics and an intelligent response to Nick Carr's " Is Google Making Us Stupid? " argument. If you haven't watched it, you must. Clay Shirky: How social media can make history. The TED Commandments.