Downes+Notes

8 characteristics of effective networks (cf. [|http://www.kolabora.com/news/2006/10/20/learning_networks_knowledge_exchange.htm)]
 * 1) **Effective networks are decentralized.**
 * 2) **Effective networks are distributed.**
 * 3) **Effective networks disintermediated.**
 * 4) **In effective networks, content and services are disaggregated.**
 * 5) **In an effective network, content and services are dis-integrated.**
 * 6) **An effective network is democratic.**
 * 7) **An effective network is dynamic.**
 * 8) **An effective network is desegregated.**