If you look at the diagram <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/252157734/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen_downes/252157734/</a> you see typical academic values: unity (of purpose, of workers, of science), coordination, closed systems, distributive (expert-based) knowledge.Knowledge based on networks is not based on counting - not on votes, on surveys, on mass, on category or type, etc. because knowledge is not the sort of thing that can be co