Clay Shirky Quotes

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.

Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?

But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.

There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.

I'm interested in sites that help people find information and filter what's available. The Internet is so big that no one can stay on top of everything.

3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before.

There are lots of new products and new services making adding content easier. But there's not many people on the other side helping users digest that content.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

It's just as valuable to curate content as it is to create it.

The more we can organize, find and manage information, the more effectively we can function in our modern world.

But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded.

There is an overwhelming amount of information available to us all on the web each day, not to mention what is shared with us by our family, friends, fans, and followers. This necessitates the need to filter through all that information and to decide for ourselves where to put our attention.

The feed was probably the biggest innovation in social media of late. But the interesting thing about a feed is that the more content you consume, the farther in time you go.

We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.

Facebook and Twitter have a ton of information they're trying to make sense of.

In the digital age, we filter forward instead of filtering out. As a result, all that material is still available to us and to others to filter in their own ways, and to bring forward in other contexts.

Before Google, I spent the summer building a program that would look at what websites you would go to and what websites other people would go to - and built a collaborative filtering program that helped you find related sites to look at.

Curation is everything.

Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like the meaning of your dream, or your dad.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

Writing a book is as different from digital curation as night and day. Digital curation is a series of split-second decisions: good/no good. It can even be done algorithmically. Writing is process-intensive activity.