Too Many Needles

Some say we need to find better ways of mining the nuggets of gold from the internet's infinite pile of possibilities.

Others disagree: "It isn't filter failure. It's filter success. In a world of infinite information, the better you get at sifting the wheat from the chaff, the more you end up crushed beneath an avalanche of wheat".

As media critic Nicholas Carr has put it, you're not struggling to find a needle in a haystack. You're staring at a haystack's worth of needles.