A great story on spam appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle today. Spam is pretty much universally hated, but the story is about how social media networks are being affected by spam and how they're learning to cope with it. 

 The article points out that one of the techniques the networks need to learn is how to filter content according to the user's preferences. Wow! What a great idea!  

 In my mind, this is yet another confirmation that customized content filters and content aggregation are the way to go, not only to deal with information overload, but also to deal with spam, which in itself, is a form of information overload.  

 At this point, anything that improves the signal-to-noise ratio is welcomed!  Hopefully, as you cruise the iGliss site, you'll find that it is pretty adept at filtering the content you want from the media sources you prefer. 

 How do you deal with spam intrusions in their many ... and growing ... forms? Is customized content filtering part of the answer?