The unconference started out with a fishbowl. Half a dozen of us sat in a circle in the middle of the room and discussed potentially controversial topics. Audience members were able to chime in to some degree.

Because I was in the fishbowl, it’s harder for me to talk about what happened – but I can say that it wsa fun to hear about differences of opinion. I’ll track down video of the event later.

Topics that came up include:

1. How much structure do you need for online discussion? How strongly do you need to enforce structure?
2. Do the growing online communities leave the real world community weakened?
3. Will newspapers be around in 10 years?