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Another thought that strikes me in connection with Schneier's comment is that it could very well apply to the traditional publishing trade. Someone, somewhere, should be filtering out a lot of the crap that gets published. We were discussing our selections in the readers' circle to which I belong, and which coincidentally has a meeting tomorrow, and the consensus was that we need some member of the circle to have read a book that we others should read, and recommend it, since it is so dangerous to rely on the reports one reads in the media, and even the reports one gets from friends and acquaintances. At least a member of the circle knows our individual likes and dislikes.
It seems to me that Sturgeon's law is now something of an underestimate of the amount of crud.
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