There is a new plugin for Firefox 3.x that is designed for online management of personal research...it's called
Zotero
It's interesting because not only can you create custom collections of works bibliographically, you can also add full-text, highlight text and add sticky notes notations, add complete web-pages, images, etc. to make robust dynamic content. Items can also appear in multiple collections (like a 3-D database).
What is most interesting is that there is a server-side expansion in the works for Zotero...it will let users share his/her Zotero collections and entries (all notes, etc) with others and allow collaborative collections of research...kind of like what we were talking about in this thread.
One example of what this means is: we could take an entire Wikipedia page for one of FPW's works, add a copy of it to our shared space on Zotera and collectively tear it apart and put it back together the way we know it should be...and never once be held hostage by Wiki-editors.
Another example is that an in-progress article could be posted as text and multiple people could edit the thing at the same time with each editor seeing the other editor's notes.
These are only some of the possibilities.
Even thought the server side part has not been released yet, I am going to start using the browser-side tool for building my connections database as I begin re-reading the Adversary Cycle..who knows, once I get to know the ins and outs I may even tackle the my next Adversary Article using it
-Wapitikev