Project Ideas
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- 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 organizations: OLPC or Sugarlabs or OpenEducation
- E-government and public engagement; e.g., 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 as couchsurfing.com
- A music sharing site
- A review and recommendation site such as yelp.com
- Open knowledge consortium
- Different language communities on Wikipedia
- 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 project that Rob mentioned in class by Alex: http://www.webecologyproject.org/2010/03/chatroulette/