Screaming Penguin

John Gruber, in his infinite cluelessness quotes:

Kontra:

Our museums are not football-field sized warehouses where art objects are indiscriminately dumped and our magazines and blogs are not amorphous containers of randomly selected articles. Our classrooms, restaurants, hospitals and indeed all our civilized institutions are firmly reliant on curation of one kind or another. The goal should be for curators to compete, not for curation to be declared illegal and unholy by the “open” zealots.

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See, this is the problem. We are comparing "The Internet" or "Computing" to museums, which are uber-constrained by space. The real analogy is to the library. Librarians aren't and don't want to be "curators." The ideal is "everything, ever" is available, and the librarian is a guide. Want information on the latest ornothological research? The librarian is your guy. Want to know about the craziest of Japanese Otaku fetishes? The librarian will get you there. "Curataion" is about artificial scarcity and, frankly, stupid in the modern world. This is why Google wins at Internet. Because they are all about tweaking for the edge case search. They are a guide, not a curator. Curators are dead or dying. Have you ever actually used Mahalo?