We already have an iTunes directory ready and waiting, and I personally am all in favour of using alternative methods of getting philosophical content into my brain apart from through my eyes.

Anyway, let’s see what people think over the next while.

I really like the idea of an online conference - I’d be happy to post/participate.

Not to get ahead of ourselves too quickly, but it may be good if people were to start having ideas for future reading groups after this. I’m very confident it will work for “Democratic Authority,” so I’d like reading groups to be a fairly regular feature. It would probably be best to not have them run concurrently, but there’s no reason why the organisation for the next group cannot occur whilst the present one is still on the go. I mentioned Christiano’s forthcoming “Constitution of Equality” (May? 2008) a while ago, but that’s just one proposal and I’m sure there are a lot of other books out there which would be good too.

Also, I’d also be interested if people thought it would be feasible/desirable to host an online political philosophy/theory conference on the website, in something like the way that Thomas Nadelhoffer and Eddy Nahmias organised two online philosophy conferences (first and second) over at Experimental Philosophy. Their model was to have a bunch of papers posted every week for a couple of weeks, with comments from someone else, and then open up the various threads for broader discussion. It seemed to go well, and they have had a lot of very good people and papers. Plus the principle of an online conference is something I think makes a lot of sense, even if it may be a bit tricky to get the pragmatics right.

[Incidentally, I’ve added a bunch of links to books on sale at Amazon using an “Amazon Associates” tag; buying a book through one of these links helps defray the cost of the website as a whole, so I’m grateful to people who do that.]