@dangillmor @mikemacapple ...I don't disagree, but it seems inevitable that the pendulum will swing back and/or stick with centralization. The masses (not pejorative) will follow the path of least resistance - and that, typically, has not been open. Moreover, there's a real risk - voiced by those far more intelligent than me on such matters - of co-opting. Google basically killed RSS; when Reader died, so many thought feeds did as well. "Social Media" took 'geek' out of the value prop.