I just watched and was thinking on Shirky’s video I have embedded below (and in the video section) in which he identifies the new problem isn’t information overload, it is filter failure. 23 minutes long around these basic ideas:

Start – a historical perspective on the beginnings of info overload witht he Gutenberg press and the filter systems that kept it uder conrtol
5:30 – new problems with internet – to much info coming to you – filters are a problem example of spam
8:29 – another problem – information going out example of your personal life in cyberspace
17:00 a real indicator – case of student on academic charges for creating a facebook study group – where is the filter?
20:00 where do we go from here? New issues in addressing filtering. He gave a beautiful Itzhak Rabin quote “If you have a problem for a long time, may it is not a problem, maybe it is a fact.”
His culminating argument – if we can move from thinking of the problem as not being too much information, but needing filter redesign, we might move to a better place.