The other night I was speaking with Courtney outside of the 12th Street Pub in Lincoln and the subject of information filtering came up, specifically with regards to Twitter and Google Reader. Since “this is what Twitter should do” posts are all the rage right now, I figured I would share some thoughts on the topic.

Courtney brought up the insightful and for some reason not obvious (to me at least) point that all filtering in 1 to many services like this is done on the receiving end, the “pull” end of the process. We talked about why this is a problem and how it could be addressed.

Generally, in a world of “information overload” there needs to be a better way for producers to selectively target and filter the information they send out. Not all of this burden should lie on the information consumer.  (Continue reading…)