The Web We Have to Save
I really hope the current centralization of the web is an evolutionary step. At first, the web was decentralized with newsgroups as open as NNTP provided. Then, the lack of controlling features killed the decentralized protocols and medium: namely the inability to control spam and the inability to have participants pay for the cost of the medium.<p>Blogs suffered from the inability to provide a good <i>reading</i> platform, which is why the death of Google Reader was so mourned. GReader, not G+, was Google's best weapon against Facebook (with proper development, not stagnant as it was).<p>It is easier to add features to centralized architectures, but it does not mean the death of distributed protocols. I do believe a distributed publishing platform will be born sometime in the future. It is unthinkable that Facebook will still be the top destination, say, 20 years from now.