"Public Agenda Issue Guides provide facts and figures, different perspectives and analysis of public attitudes from surveys conducted by Public Agenda and by other respected polling and news organizations. "

Links to websites on social issues such as animal welfare, education, end-of-life, race relations, etc. Also some topics' websites are already separated into pro and con.

Link to websites on all sorts of current social issues like censorship, the death penalty, global warming, identity theft, same sex marriage, immigration, etc.

Making the Semantic Web a reality demands more and better ontologies. Yet, building ontologies is inherently a social process constrained by technical, social, economic, and legal bottlenecks. That means that researchers must bring the same interest they do to purely technical issues to addressing the other challenges reality imposes on ontology projects.

The Semantic Web is, without a doubt, gaining momentum in both industry and academia. Unfortunately, Semantic Web services -- annotating computational functionality rather than data -- are underrepresented. Most Semantic Web researchers dedicate their attention to annotating Web content stored in static documents or database-driven applications. Yet, annotating existing Web data won't make the original Semantic Web vision a reality. Instead, evidence shows that Semantic Web services are mandatory components of the Semantic Web, primarily because entities are more willing to expose functionality than data in business settings.

It has been eight years since Tim Berners-Lee threw up his hands and said "it's all crap, lets do it over" and set off to create the semantic web. We've got very little to show for it so far. I firmly believe the work semantic web technologists are pursuing is important and the concepts will inevitably be realized and I very much want to see this research become viable. But things are not moving fast enough and the tack semantic researchers are taking simply isn't working.