Filters and the web
The other night watching the spanish version of Mobuzz TV, they talked about this post from Publishing 2.0, which basically says that we have a problem with content on the web and we need filters to access to only relevant data and prevent noise.
I definitely agree, search engines must be the first to add more complex filters to show better results and something must be done on Twitter and lifestreams too, but I have to disagree with their solution about to produce less content (which is obviously impossible) and link more often.
One of the things that I’ve always loved from blogs is that everyone can have the opportunity to express themselves to the world and we just can’t stop that. The same goes to Twitter, Flickr or YouTube.
If we begin to re-think every time that we publish content on the web, we’ll get to the point that maybe everything is useless (even this post). And if we move to an only-linking mode, then only a few will be heard.
Both are obviously subjetive, what I post and link is good to me but could be noise to you, so nobody wins anything.
If we need to close or stop something, comments must be the first by far, of course there are exceptions but 90% of them are totally noise.
So instead of produce less content, let’s stop linking to useless content and become our own filters.
