In other words, I'm not speaking now.... I'm intentionally being counterintuitive, if you will, in trying to sort of face us forward as to where we go from here with regard to harnessing this interest.
But you're precisely right about the salacious quality of tabloid magazines. What's interesting about something like Wikipedia or this genre of tools is that when somebody posts something that is not factual and that is salacious gossip, someone else can come in and correct it. Someone else can come in, and that's often where these contributions are most valuable.
I think what we're seeing in terms of the interest level that this is generating--and this is not to speak to issues of first amendment concerns or national security concerns or espionage or after any of the many issues one could get into, but simply the interest that this has generated--is that it could cause us to ask, what are the ways we can productively and positively harness this interest to foster our culture of collaboration, which is to say nothing about protecting the security of national systems and the national security issues the archivist already alluded to. I agree completely with what he suggested. I want to just offer an additional viewpoint on this that is intentionally, I hope, provocative and counterintuitive.