Dynamics of Information

Brad Feld has a thoughtful post about what he calls the "dynamics of information."  Essentially, it is the notion of dealing with information overload:

It’s not just an issue of tuning the sources, or the filters, or what you pay attention to. Rather – it’s something much larger that takes into account the intersection of many of the technological themes - such as social networks, feeds, attention, user-generated content, identity, relevance, and a few other things tossed in for good measure.  And - because of our friend Mr. Broadband – it now includes audio and video in addition to text.

Brad's excited because he thinks there's a wave of innovation coming in this area. I agree.  I know it is an area that I have concentrated on a lot and have been giving much thought to in recent months.  It's also something that Robert Scoble, Om Malik, and Mike Arrington discussed on the TalkCrunch podcast over the weekend.

Brad has written about a startup called Lijit that deals with this very issue. And recently Monitor110 has gotten some positive press (and I'm very interested in watching this one because I have long believed that there is a serious play to be had in analyzing new media for Wall Street).

Tags: information overload, brad feld, lijit, monitor110, talkcrunch