From a blogpost here about digital urbanism, I find a few sentences that describe perfectly the digital curation of linkblogging and the wunderkammer-stocking process and the intent behind them — and, perhaps, why the early internet was always destined to fill up with people doing the BoingBoing thing at home:

The Digital has an uncanny historical bent. It allows for and thrives on richer, more intense and diverse readings of the past. We are unburying the marginal, the secondary, the almost forg