And once you've curated that data, and once you've cleaned that data, and once it's there, you can do cool stuff like this.

And the TEDPad is a matrix of 100 specifically selected, highly curated sentences that you can easily piece together to get your own TEDTalk.

The Mediatheque has something like 16 stations where the public can get onto the server and look at digital artworks or also curated artworks off the web.

A few years later, I was invited to be the director of the museum, and after I got over that Who, me? The tapestry geek? I don't wear a tie! I realized the fact I believe passionately in that curated museum experience.

Now, while as a journalist, Miller's archive may have been better written and more carefully curated than most, the fact of the matter is that all of us today are creating an archive that's something completely different than anything that's been created by any previous generation.