Some of you might be interested in knowing about the launch of the  
beta version of the Public Sphere Guide, co-sponsored by the Social  
Science Research Council (SSRC) and NYU's Institute for Public  
Knowledge (IPK):
http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/guide
The Public Sphere Guide serves as a research guide and teaching guide  
and as a guide to the SSRC's public sphere program area, creating a  
map of the fragmented interdisciplinary field of study and building a  
resource for the renewal of the public sphere. This mapping project is  
accompanied by an interactive essay forum on Transformations of the  
Public Sphere:
http://publicsphere.ssrc.org/
In some ways, the Public Sphere Guide can also be seen as an attempt  
to produce a Chuck Tilly-style annotated bibliography online.
Andreas Koller, SSRC and NYU