Sturm und Drang

The prospect of a distributed, interoperable, self-hosted network of publishing, reading and discussion tools is nothing new – but the idea is gaining a lot more support as more people react to recent news like FriendFeed’s sale to Facebook, Tr.im’s up and down and Twitter’s denial of service attacks. The tide may not be turning, but there’s sure to be some new waves of innovation that come out of this period of frustration.

Is a Perfect Storm Forming For Distributed Social Networking? von Marshall Kirkpatrick (pars pro toto für eine ganze serie an posts, die im zuge des ff/fb deals den neuen drang nach einer föderalisierten freiheit für soziale netzwerke, 140 char updates, etc. ausdrücken)