Content Overload Quotes

When I think about too much content out there, one of the things that comes to mind for me is just the volume of really outstanding creators there are.

There's so much information and journalism on television. We have too much to absorb.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up.

I think what's dangerous is 24 hours a day, 335 channels, or whatever the hell there is. Too much is too much.

I'm just an early adopter; I subscribe to more things than normal people and have a high level of inbound and a high level of noise.

As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.

There's no such thing as information overload-only filter failure.

When you have a lot going on in a scene - whether it be a lot of shots, a lot of coverage, a lot of edits, or just the amount of content - it can cover up a deficit of true feeling. But when you don't have a lot of material to work with, you really have to be sincere with everything. You really have to mean it, because there's nowhere to hide.

Everyone has a really short attention span, and you have to bombard them with content, content, content.

I think that the use of copyright is going to change dramatically. Part of it is economics. There is just going to be so much content out there - there's a scarcity of attention. Information consumes attention, and there's too much information.

There's so much to watch, I can't even keep up.

I just think it's quite remarkable that everyone says they want to add more commentary to their news pages. In some ways, I think, 'Well, how is that even possible?' It seems sometimes that that's all that there is.

Sometimes groups and their material can get overbloated.

There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on.

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.

I love podcasts! I wish I had my own, although I think there are already too many podcasts, so I don't know how I would create a new one.

Even good shows can fail to find an audience because they're drowned out by the noise and the sheer volume of everything that is being made. It's one of the downsides of there being, as I've argued, too many shows.

A lot of new stuff just isn't having the same impact as it used to when people would wait for a specific DVD or video to come out and then watch it over and over and over. Now, it's a two-minute clip online and forgotten the next day.

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

There's a sea of music out there, but there's no curation for it.

Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

I think there are ways in which shows can pop their heads up a little bit in the morass of everything you can watch.

Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.

We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties' salaries to fund research.