Project Ideas

• Blogging and citizen media sites - global voices, spot.us, digg or slashdot, or a hyperlocal news organization
• Facebook groups
• Flickr groups
• Bulletin boards, usenet groups, or 4chan
• Education and tech organization – OLPC or Sugarlabs [or OpenEducation http://openeducation.ideascale.com/a/panel.do?id=7030]
• E-government and public engagement; eg, fcc, open gov
• A government transparency organization
• An online political movement - moveon.org, online versions of the tea party
• A gaming site, eg WoW
• A community exchange site such couchsurfing.com
• A music sharing site
• A review and recommendation site such as yelp.com
• Open knowledge consortium
• Conservapedia -- now that we've spent so much time on Wikipedia -- lots of nice normative/governance questions here
• The digital chicken problem on Second Life -- lots of trolls/vandals/identity questions

http://ignite.oreilly.com/2009/12/patrick-davison-and-the-plight-of-the-digital-chickens.html

• ChatRoulette, whose founder just went live -- questions around anonymity/forced anonymity/site organization

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/chatroulettes-founder-17-introduces-himself/

• Slate's Hive