You could not come up with a better illustration of the clash of cultures that was the eG8 than the post-forum report.

Was the output of the two-day gathering in Paris published on a website so people could link to it? Or perhaps a blog so that people could comment on it? Or even a wiki, so the people who attended could contribute and correct mistakes?

No it wasn't. The report is a book.

Or rather it is an eBook. Except it isn't even an eBook, in the sense of something that you can read on your Kindle or other eBook reader.

It's actually a Flash-based page turner, the sort of thing that was all the rage five years ago. It is a digital facsimile of a book.