Symposium 0.8

• We are in an economy where there are amazing resources that people can access for free and people are happy to donate their labor eg: Wikipedia
• Difference between protocol and mediation
• Is the Internet democratic? Well yes, because everyone can access it.
• The Great Firewall of China 
• Internet is a distributed network. The nodes can interact with each other no matter how far away they are.

Flame wars: Emails
Urban Dictionary: “A flame war is a heated argument between two individuals, that results in those involved posting personal attacks on each other during or instead of debating the topic at hand. Most forums have rules that forbid flaming. This is because the quality of conversation on a forum can be seriously degraded by a flame war. Topics can be “hijacked” by two people who would rather flame each other than discuss the subject of the thread.”

“Us Now” – participatory culture brought back to life, bottom up nodes of practice, social media and online presence. Reshaping of old forms, continual process, overlapping, restructuring old forms rather than constructing new forms.