I am just completing an article on Wikis –not simply on wikipedia, but on the potential for wikis as a marketing and publishing platform. I had been intrigued with Politicopia (not to be confused with Politopia) and its founder Steve Urquhart’s idea of putting hot button issues like this up for public debate in a Wiki.

So the news that in Utah’s legislature passed a bill for school vouchers, debated in Politicopia, was a case in point that this democratic social medium can be stretched to serve a variety of purposes.

Urquhart credited the wiki with shedding ‘sunlight’ by taking private dialog and
putting it into a public forum.