The latest issue of edge has some very intersting articles about the aggregation of public opinion...   it references wikipedia and such like, but perhaps its relevent to what network23 is also trying to do...

http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge208.html 

Josh Wolf, the video blogger who was jailed for refusing to hand over footage of the G8 protest, has been freed after spending eight months in jail.  http://joshwolf.net/blog/http://freejosh.pbwiki.com/

If you go down to the woods today, your in for a big surprise. Especially if there's a tekno party in full swing. Expect to be fallen upon by a strange crowd of people, many of who simply stare blankly ahead and dribble slightly when you ask them for their names. Even stranger are the hordes of bodies littering the ground. What madness is this? Is there a lurking maniac around each tree and behind every bush fondling a blood soaked knife? Perhaps they've all been up too long and need some well deserved kip, its hard work unloading a few speakers after all. But, no - the party's only just begun, and the shadows have been checked for murderers and are mainly clear.

Suddenly, a gaunt face peers from the gloom, "oo's got my fuckin plate, I'm tryin to cook!" Curious, and peckish, you push through the comatose bodies to the truck and ask for a sandwich, the face stares past you and mumbles something about fuckin off out of his fuckin van.