Wow. I just noticed. Certain online articles of the Philippine Daily Inquirer - see here for an example - are embedding author-initiated (presumably) links directly into the text.

This is fabulous. It’s advanced for a traditional media outlet. But it goes to the heart of the (now ages old) hypertext concept Tim Berners-Lee implemented when he put forth the foundations of the internet and specifically www services with http.

If they provided, on the same page, the ability to comment and read comments made by those of us formerly referred to as the audience but who are actually also producers of informed news and opinion, we would really be transforming things here in the Philippines.