Excellent article and almost 6 years old. There are many projects to mention here but so far none of them took of as far as I know. Or did they? After publishi

Excellent article and almost 6 years old. There are many projects to mention here but so far none of them took of as far as I know. Or did they? After publishing my own rant about the same topic [0], Dave Winer commented via Twitter and argued that RSS is a very successful tool that decentralizes the web. I didn't understand his point at the time but today I think he is absolutely right. His point was that when trying to fix the problem we should look at what already exists and works. Why did RSS succeed? Probably because it solved a problem for many people. It did not try to reinvent old things in a decentralized way but offered real benefits. Another good example for this git vs svn (centralized vs decentralized revision system). [0] http://www.soa-world.de/echelon/2011/09/the-decentralized-web-movement.html http://www.soa-world.de/echelon/2011/09/the-decentralized-we...