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 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/]