This is basically a plea for applications / social networks to somewhat become citizens of the internet, to participate in the rest of society. > We invite sof

This is basically a plea for applications / social networks to somewhat become citizens of the internet, to participate in the rest of society. > We invite software developers to do their part, by (creating links, public-ish apis to resolve even hidden links) Love it. Love it love it love it. You're either a part of civil society, participating in public activities, something visible & discussable & around. You are part of the internetworking of humankind. Online, in a connected way. Or you're just using the internet to extend your intranet. To build your own private little silo, a small fort, a-participator, contributing nothing, taking. I love the ideas here. I do want to see a reciprocal dawning awareness though, a hope/expectation/recognition that social systems & so called online medias be accessible broadly, not just via narrow applicationized windows. Ubiquotous linking is a mouthful, a complex notion, but I want this battle not just to be one that good moral techies try to raise up & make other techies do, but something that society itself engages in, a recognition that that which is done in secret in closed systems does not contribute, and a belief that society deserves to be able to comment, review, discuss, share, link, cite, exchange the ideas and things they see as they navigate connected information systems. Connected information systems ought be a part of the broader internetwork we have. To fall away from that, to become your own little island: it withdraws your value, what you are from society, is anti-social, anti-societal. Great site, but it leaves me wondering how we scope up the dilemna & situation here, how we make the conflict of withheld & walled-gardened (corporate intra-netted), versus public & in the world.