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Message:: [QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 2736605, member: 27832"]1) Over time information eventually comes to the Internet. Getting it onto the Internet is much harder than getting it back off the Internet once it's there. 2) To return to twentieth-century levels of information vetting and curation, we might need to return to twentieth-century levels of information publication, and that isn't happening -- not when the cost and time to publish has dropped by so many orders of magnitude. There will never be so few gatekeepers as there once were. It's a shame that we lose the benefit of their experience and expertise, but we also escape their prejudices and self-interest. 3) It doesn't take a journalist to collate and reformat public records, data, or sales and auction histories. I do support real journalism -- we still subscribe to our local paper, even though there are many days when I don't even check the headlines -- but the days when a news outlet "added value" to legal notices or classified ads (or, Heaven help us, editorial opinion) are long, long gone. 4) Online advertising is a mess, and in a tremendous state of flux. But to think that we'll solve all its problems by going back to printed ads and TV commercials is just silly. The Internet is a superior serving table, storage container, and possibly even grocery and kitchen for that numismatic cake. And, of course, a comfortable, well-appointed, and well-attended dining room.[/QUOTE]