I appreciate these posts for "I just need to do X..." google-search-for-my-fix problems. But I've always found it frustrating that this is what the whole www is now: a whole lot of spread out individual docs for individual problems, rather than a concise review of useful information (a "just the useful bits" database if you will).

Try to learn anything in depth these days and either you're deciphering a dense yet incomplete manual, or googling until eternity. Make is a great example, as even though they have a useful manual, good luck figuring out how to apply it to your problem. Wikis don't quite cut it either. We need a different data model for knowledge sharing.