The table of contents works fine as long as the document is structured correctly, but that applies to both wikispaces and wikimedia — for our purposes, it certainly is sufficient.

Space is fun to debate, and there is a lot of good literature to support it. It’s a valuable debate to be had, but I would also echo Antonucci’s concerns about a lack of good debateable neg literature outside of impact turns, solvency defense, and the spending DA. Alternative proposals will rarely get net benefits.

I like the India topic. It captures the good parts of the space debate while still allowing good neg ground (like whether or not the US should work unilaterally, or with China, etc), which still allows debates about space. It also integrates free trade and proliferation, which have tons of good neg ground in terms of counterplan proposals, impact turns, etc.

There’s a ton of literature on US-India cooperation – here are some examples from the last three months (these are in the first ten off google).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303493904575167274019015344.html
http://www.american.com/archive/2010/march/india-the-united-states-and-high-tech-trade
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/03/139172.htm

I don’t like space because it’s defined by one-sided cool ideas. There’s not much two-sided debate. The natural neg isn’t a counterplan with a net benefit – the real neg in the literature is spending and solvency timeframe presses. (Solar sails are surely very exciting, but cost a lot of money and take a long time to develop.)

I don’t think that translates into “aff bias” – I just think it means the cool stuff gets forgotten by the time the rebuttals come around because it’s strategic to make the debate about something else.

Spending disads in debate are always tough for uniqueness reasons.

This is why I’m into an Internet regulation topic. It’s defined by random nerds too, but nerds who argue with each other instead of saying “yay, space, cool” and mutually admiring each other. I can easily imagine some really intricate and awesome debates on that topic.

I mention this not (only) to whinge, but because I think a techy topic would be cool and different, but we haven’t collectively figured out how to pose the question.

Net neutrality would be hotter.

Thank you, that’s exactly the idea that i had. I just didn’t exactly know how to do that.