Content Management Systems are boring. They do two really important things—they make serving RSS invisible and painless, and they create a way for non-authors to link to particular giblets on the turkey. But they're also choking the life out of everything. They're a nuclear bomb when a flyswatter will do.
Now there's 8 million people building their Google-fu, with their tags and their five-way archive systems and their carefully-coddled text.
Everything archives now! The internet is a vast disaster. Is there any conceivable reason that Twitter needs to keep all our stupid-precious text messages forever?
What the internet needs is a great big server wipe. The ephemeral is way more important. If you want to keep it forever, get a Moleskine and a fireproof safe and put that in a concrete bunker. What good is it doing you anyway?
