The mess on the net

It's as if the Library of Congress had exploded

in midair. There's all kinds of information strewn

over the countryside, approximately laid out

according to its logical relationship.

If you want a particular piece of information,

it's probably not there, although some corpuses

of data have landed intact.

And the professional librarians haven't arrived

yet to sort out the mess...

David Brooks on the WWW

Why a

gateway?