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Five years ago the Library of Congress began a project that collects every utterance on Twitter, in the name of preserving the nation’s digital heritage. That is billions weekly, sucked up for storage in secure tape archives, and the Library has yet to figure out how to make any of it available to researchers. Divorced from a human curator, the unfiltered mass of Twitter may as well be a garbage heap ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do," The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].
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Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?
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― My Favorite Things: An Illustrated Meditation on Material Culture Through Original Paintings of Beloved Objects
― My Favorite Things: An Illustrated Meditation on Material Culture Through Original Paintings of Beloved Objects