Most of the Internet is like a village square where the rich come to sell you something and the powerful come to remind you who is boss. The rich don't expect you to interact with them and they don't want you to interact with them unless it will somehow encourage you to buy more. The powerful don't expect you to interact with them and they don't want you to interact with you unless it will somehow encourage you to be more obedient.
We have accepted that we can't talk back to the rich and powerful. But that is a lie. Because the rich and powerful have come to the village square. They have come to the Internet. They have set up their booths. They have set up their Web sites. They think they are untouchable. They are not. They think we are weak. We are not.
If we can find a way to superimpose our own thoughts and opinions over theirs, to make what is private public, to reclaim the Internet as a democratic space, not just a reflection of the hierarchical world in which we live, how would that change the Internet? How would that change the world?
Blogs are only the beginning of the democratic reinvention of the Internet.


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In 2006, I founded ZapBoom Consulting, which specializes in the analysis of how digital
tools like cell phones and the Internet can be used in social change campaigns in developing countries. I have
researched and written reports on topics ranging from 



I hope that I've understood your blog correctly (English is not my native language. I live in Sweden). I wrote my first blog yesterday and is actually looking for some interesting souls to brainstorm with. Read my blog and see if we share the same view on the internet (hope you'll understand it) :)
I read your "The Gift Economy on the Internet" and it was interesting, just like this was.
http://everdale.blogspot.com
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