Scrymarch . # .

Annotations: I think this links in nicely with your earlier link to the article on public EU Constitution annotation .  They\'re both about annotating a document in a public space from a different perspective.  With just a little more finessing over permissions and suchforth  it might fly.  Tim Blair\'s site seems a funny target though, since commenters on the open site are mostly going to be, as cam said, hysterically agreeing with one another, and disagreeing with him.

Would it be possible (legal) to set up a headline and intro feed on a newspaper, with comments?  Click on the story and go to the newspaper, click on the comments and go to a scoopish comment system.

I think that talkeuro site is a great idea.  For a start the content base is solid rather than the more ethereal blogosphere.  Secondly the domain is large - among 400 million EU citizens you\'d think there\'d be hundreds of thousands of political tragics.  The problem would be first to get people going to it, and second to stop it turning into the online flamefest equivalent of the Great War, with memetic trenches carved all over the Union\'s founding documents.

There\'s some wikipedia-ish problems too.  Genuine technical commentary and explanation of the issues by experts in EU law would be extremely valuable.  I\'d like to be able to distinguish it from the layman ramblings of pseudonymous armchair pundits such as myself.  Laypeople have lots to contribute to the debate - that\'s the whole point of opening up comments - but sometimes it would be useful for an expert to just say \"there\'s no way Law X would get past the European Court of Justice with this clause in the constitution\".  Or even better, five experts saying that and one saying \"maybe\".