The Needle in the HaystackFinding Goodness Online

Dean ShareskiJune 22, 2012

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Back to 2006

Overload

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Yitzhak Rabin

“If you have the same problem for a long time, maybe it’s not a problem – maybe it’s a fact.”

More books than you could read in a lifetime

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Gatekeepers

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20th Century Filters

“[T]he word “publishing” means a cadre of professionals who are taking on the incredible difficulty and complexity and expense of making something public. That’s not a job anymore. That’s a button. There’s a button that says “publish,” and when you press it, it’s done.” Clay Shirky

The Death of Publishing

We now are publishers and

curators

the problem with search

About 445,000,000 results (0.24 seconds)

About 445,000,000 results (0.24 seconds)

I don’t like to prescribe, only describe

Social Curation

Tools

RSS

RSS

Google Reader

Text

Twitter Search

Twitter Search

Diigo

Delicious

Tagging

Part of the solution is more

data

WorkFlows

Evernote

The Problem is...

When we can always get what we want

We rarely find hidden treasures

Or explore diverse or opposing points of view

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" http://shareski.ca/y/1fe

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" http://shareski.ca/y/1fe

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Dean Shareski

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@shareski

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