Did you read Hoder's piece about saving the web?
He was in jail in Iran for six years, while the flow of the web was taken over by social media. That gave him a unique perspective on what was lost.
If you haven't read it, and you love the web, please clear 15 good minutes and sit down with a cup of coffee or whatever you like to drink and listen to him and think.
And yes, it is ironic that he put the piece on Medium, where they are hoping to do a bit more of the same unpleasantness to the web. But at least they support real hyperlinks unlike Twitter and Facebook.
It is as if he overheard all the walled garden discussions on Rebooting the News. His piece is very specific about the nature of blogging, hyperlinks, activism, and free speech. A healthy society is a Web-like web of voices and institutions and texts with hyperlink-like connections that thinking, feeling people make and remake together. The tools in our possession make this easier or harder or impossible to do. He has stepped out of a time machine, in effect, to discover that the tools have eroded while he was away. Added: I reposted this on akaKenSmith.wordpress. @h0d3r's Twitter feed is a rich resource, I see.
Exactly right. He stepped out of a time machine. Very useful perspective.