1. Collection:
It is not enough to passively gather in whatever information comes your
way, like a spider waiting on its web.  Information collection is an
activity, and an intelligent activity.  It is important to collect and
collocate information units that support, complement and even contradict
each other.  A collection has a purpose and a context; it says something
about the information and it says something about the gatherer of that
information.  It is not random, because information itself is not
random, and humans do not produce information in a random fashion.

Too many Internet sites today are a terrible hodge-podge, with little
intellectual purpose behind their holdings.  It isn't surprising that
visitors to these sites have a hard time seeing the value of the
information contained therein.  Commercial systems, on the other hand,
have no incentive to provide an intellectual balance that might
"confuse" its user.

In all of the many papers that have come out of discussion of the
National Information Infrastructure, it is interesting that there is no
mention of collecting information: there is no Library of Congress or
National Archive of the electronic information world.  So in the whole
elaborate scheme, no one is responsbile for the collection of
information.