Chorus stems from chora, and chora [khôra] is a potent term in my field of rhetoric, meaning, variously, the discovery of ideas, the space outside the walls of the city where ideas are born, or as a place of “emerging possibility”.

with three or four or howevermany versions of a document.

“only one valid set of relationships, inscribed by the author.”

keeping links within the document but letting every person have as many copies of that document as they like, with whatever links they want on each.

[L]inks as imagined by the heirs of Bush — Engelbart, Nelson, Van Dam — formed a layer of annotation on documents that were by and large a separate entity.

But it does place links on an independent layer

Paratexts.

For all the breadth the web and hypertext promises, it is still limited by single authors getting their stuff out there as their single perspective