Hat tip to iLibrarian for posting about Clay Shirky’s (author of Here Comes Everybody) keynote at the Web 2.0 conference this week in NYC. The talk was titled: “It’s not Information Overload.  It’s Filter Failure.”   [iLibrarian also provided a handy link to the video of Shirky's talk.]

Mitch Wagner at Information Week had a good summary of the talk: “The problem is that our filters are inadequate. And privacy breakdowns are a similar problem — privacy is threatened because the filters we relied on to keep our private data confidential are broken, and we haven’t evolved good mechanisms to replace those filters yet.”