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I certainly am sympathetic to the preservationist mindset. OTOH, even if we restrict ourselves to content that is natively created in digital form, the amount of "stuff" that comes into existence every day--much of it not on the public web or public social media--is staggering. (And much is not public for good reasons.)

I'm not convinced that we should feel a compulsion to save all of that. Just because it's more practical to be a pack rat about digital content doesn't mean that, taken to extremes, it doesn't still seem like being a pack rat.