Talk:Topics

Does anyone feel inclined to group the topics on this list? For instance I would like to list transparency in congressional voting records and other gov data: Sunlight Foundation, Govtrack.us, and others. Does it makes sense to group this topic under any general heading? Sethwoodworth 12:58, 24 November 2008 (EST)

• This sounse like a good idea, but I'm not sure how to do it. Perhaps it's something just to do and ask later. --G 12:28, 28 November 2008 (EST)

• Went ahead and organized it. Forgiveness, not permission. Plus, it kept me from studying for 15 minutes, and you can't put a price on procrastination. Feel free to reorg (natch), especially if you know something more about discourse theory than I do (= spending two minutes on Wikipedia). Topics could change categories according to the perspective people wish to bring to them (e.g. Google Book Search, which could easily be discussed as a social/economic tool, but the existing writeup made it sound like the author wanted to discuss it as a new legal issue instead). --Jgruensp 14:28, 29 November 2008 (EST)

Per Cass' advice, I added my name to some topics I'm interested in, but marked them "(maybe)." Don't think I'm trying to monopolize half the Topics list; I'm just indicating some interests. Dan Ray 13:17, 1 December 2008 (EST)

Added a category for the list of topics we had at the end of last session (12/1/2008). Hope that's ok. --Hoellra 13:41, 1 December 2008 (EST)