Nelson suggested that everything you quoted would be linked back to where you got it and also linked back to you, from there. The first part of this idea is fan

Nelson suggested that everything you quoted would be linked back to where you got it and also linked back to you, from there. The first part of this idea is fantastic. The second part, ludicrous. In Mimix, your writing is linked to your reference materials and these are available for your readers to see, too. But your writing is only linked back from those materials when you are viewing them -- not for anyone else in the world. Ted's suggested system would have the Declaration of Independence linked to every schoolchild's paper that wrote about it. In Mimix, you would see the relationships only between your writing and the documents you referenced -- not anyone else's.