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The community that built the largest encyclopedia in history is shrinking, even as more people and Internet services depend on it than ever. Can it be revived, or is this the end of the Web’s idealistic era?

Join the 2nd Future Library Unconference, a gathering of library thinkers and doers. This December almost 400 attendees will make the trip from all corners of Greece, the Balkans, and Europe to participate in stages & workshops & engage in interaction, networking and the exchange of ideas.

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So-called fab labs provide members of the public access to high-tech equipment for invention, creativity and learning. Here’s a look at a fab lab in the District.

Is it "Crowd" sourcing or an Open Innovation Community? And why does it matter? TopCoder founder Jack Hughes parses the semantics and lays out the reasoning why this "subtle' difference is actually at the core of 21st Century distributed innovation.

Ariel Waldman thinks that no matter how much you know about space, you can learn a thing or two more. And she’s right.

qaul.net implements a redundant, open communication principle, in which wireless-enabled computers and mobile devices can directly form a spontaneous network.

Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud.

After working on the development of the Aalto FabLab, after doing the one week Fab Boot Camp in FabLab Barcelona and the 5 months FabAcademy in FabLab Amsterdam, after visiting other FabLabs and meeting people in the community, I now have enough experience and material to write this post.

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