Brent Simmons:

We – and I mean me and many thousands of people like me – worked hard to make the decentralized web, the web of blogs and podcasts, a place where all the Merlins would thrive…. I realize that decentralized-web fanatics are often looked at as if we’re the Libertarians of the web. Or the crazy-conspiracy-theorist-uncles. Or as if we’re stuck, sadly, in a rosy past and we won’t move on.

Think whatever you will. But wonder if, if all this goes away, could there be any more Merlins.

The footer of this very website should probably say “Inspired by People like Brent Simmons and Merlin Mann.”