I think this is an issue for individual users as much as it is for large institutional service providers, and will become an even bigger issue in the days ahead as we move more and more of our “stuff” into the cloud and rely on a variety of service providers and – as you rightly point out – LINK all of these services and “stuff” hosters together. I’ve long since lost track of all the accounts I have out on the web, and as I use more and more widgets and plugins and filters and automatic notifiers and whosits and whatsits, it’s become ever more difficult to track down the source of an issue when something “goes wrong” or doesn’t behave as I expect it to behave. I’m not sure I have any answers, other than as an end user I’m trying to do a better job of at least documenting some of these services/links so when something goes wrong I at least have a list of places to look, but as the complexity of the systems and services we use proliferate, I think problems are going to be ever harder to...
- Fleep Tuque