What we have here is a wonderful example of filter failure. See this link: http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/ http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/ It's a

What we have here is a wonderful example of filter failure. See this link: http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/ http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/ It's a video of Clay Shirky's web2expo keynote titled "It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure." Here's what's happening: For every wonderful blog post there are several mediocre ones. And when you oversubscribe to RSS feeds, which many of us do, you start drowning in a flood of posts you don't feel like reading. Links you get on Twitter, on the other hand, are already pre-filtered. Somebody must have already read the article and decided it's worth sharing. You also know from previous experience who is sharing good links and who is sharing crap, so you know whose links are worth clicking. But this can only work as long as some people keep on reading lots of articles and only share the good ones. You're not gonna get any new links once everyone decides to abandon RSS and only read articles shared by people they follow on Twitter.