Due to busy week I’ll just put two great links that demonstrate the importance of creating empowering links between peopel and particularly between different specialisms online.
Yochai Benkler: Open-source economics from TED and a site sharing the Many Eyes; A service that combines information visualization with social software, enabling collaborative visualization by groups of users.
Both highlight, as Eric Raymond discussed in the Cathedral and the Bazaar, the ways in which the power of many individual small efforts can be harnessed to create a large, powerful network based on collective effort.