Ebay for Education

So, what's needed to make a home for people to get together to learn? Ebay of education? Today, you can get together and shoot the breeze in any given blog or chat site or even USENET newsgroup. Or comments at shopping sites like amazon.com.

There's even MOO or MUD to allow creation of virtual worlds for education.

However, one cannot pool money and time to, say, explore the Titanic by merely chatting about it.

Some issues to work out: Money and Time can be harnessed only by building up trust (just as you trust an ebayer with high number of positive comments). And like any financial system, one can always game it to take advantage of it be it the (real) stock market or virtual worlds like EverQuest with real-world effects or pseudo-virtual worlds like HSX.

(I'm a believer in open source and I'm against software patents so I'm all for talking about my ideas openly in the public so that it's not hidden.)