Remember the saying “hyperlinks subvert hierarchies”?

If the web still is about getting rid of the middleman then perhaps Facebook et al. should be quite scared.

If not, then perhaps we should be.

Gosh, I also totally overslept the evolution of the wiki-wiki concept: the original Portland Pattern Repository was then but the Smallest Federated Wiki is now.

Yesterday I linked to unhosted.org and from there, suddenly a whole new world opened up for me. Dozens of further links providing wonderful insights and a huge reminder of what the web actually means to me:

freedomboxfoundation.org, remotestorage.io, 5apps.com, appcloudy.com, pouchdb.com, lawnchair, webfinger, owncloud.org, tahoe-lafs.org.

No doubt, here is some movement going on (although the unhosted manifesto is already more than two years old) to do something about the issue of shoving our beloved data into the greedy mouths of those corporate content silos – a term I think I first read at scripting.com.

Not by chance also Dave Winer just recently affirmed that he is “on the Web Team”.

Sure is: I want to be on the Web Team, too. Question is, though: am I?

Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a “good, marketable character”. (Via slate.com)

Unhosted Web Apps. Freedom from Web 2.0’s monopoly platforms.

John Bauer: Týr and Fenrir. (Via en.wikipedia.org)

Game of Drones: The Blue Brothers.

Currently, people like to pay for fancy journalism – even without being very sure what that might be. (Disclaimer: Count me in.)

“A new quality online ‘newspaper’ due to launch in Amsterdam in September has raised more than €1 million in just eight days from subscribers willing to pay in advance for what it describes as ‘slow journalism’ – in-depth news analysis, entirely free of advertising.”

Definition of an asshole: a person who demands that all social interaction happen on their terms. (Via gawker.com)

“… we have grossly underestimated both the scope and the scale of animal intelligence.” (Via hubski.com)