See Also It’s Wikipedia and it’s physically under one roof thanks to Michael Mandiberg, publishing site Lulu.com, and Denny Gallery New York. Michael Mandiberg co-author of Digital Foundations, Collaborative Futures and editor of The Social Media Reader, has just dropped his most ambitious project yet, Print Wikipedia. The project transforms the world’s largest collection of knowledge into book form by writing software that parses the Wikipedia database in English and lays out thousands of volumes, complete with covers, and then uploads them for print-on-demand. "This project has two correlated sectors, one of which has utility, and one that does not," Mandiberg tells The Creators Project....
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