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Tackling ‘Information Obesity’: Clay Johnson LIVE on Big Think

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Clay Johnson, author of The Information Diet and co-founder of Blue State Digital, the firm that built and managed Barack Obama’s online campaign for the presidency in 2008, argues that there’s no such thing as ‘information overload.’ The problem, he says, is that people consume information indiscriminately.


He spoke with us live in the studio on March 22nd, answering readers’ questions about ‘information obesity’ and the implications of his ideas for the future of information. 

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