And you can read about it at http://citizendium.org/. Predicatably enough, wikipedia already has an article on it. Will it fly? Who knows...
[Update: Nature has an article on this, featuring a brief appearence by yours truely... I don't get to say anything exciting though. Or perhaps more precisely, I *didn't* say anything very exciting]
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Off topic,
thought you might be interested in these images
if you haven't alreadyseen them
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM7ZF8LURE_index_0.html
[Interesting... -W]
It is more than interesting. It is devasting :-(
I am not surprised. I have been monitoring the Arctic ice using the US Navy's ice maps which you can see here: http://www.abmcdonald.freeserve.co.uk/USNavy.htm At the end of August this and last year there were a straight lines of low concentration ice leading from west of Novaya Zemlya to the North Pole. I checked and this is the route taken by the Russian cruise liner which travels to the pole from Murmansk. The ice must be pretty thin if a cruise liner can produce a trail obvious to satellites.
Unfortunately I do not have access to archives of the USN maps but would be interested in hearing from anyone who has more evidence on those features.
Alastair, here's the cruise liner that's making those tracks through the ice:
http://www.cruisingholidays.co.uk/arctic/icebreaker-yamal-1.htm
On Citizendum:
Boing Boing here:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/09/20/clay_shirky_an_exper.html
referencing Shirky: http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/09/18/larry_sanger_citizendium_an…