Project Ideas

A sample of possible final project topics:

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
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

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

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