- Archive.org now offers S3-compatible access (HTTP, FTP, SSH) for bulk retrieval and upload of its content, expanding low-cost archival options for open-science datasets.  
- H+ Summit 2010 speaker list clusters citizen-science, DIY biology, open-source hardware, and neuroscience outreach talks, framing them as a single “democratization of disruptive change” narrative.  
- PLoS and other open-access journals are praised for openness but criticized for higher author fees than traditional paywalled venues, highlighting a funding-model barrier for cash-strapped DIY researchers.  
- “Divenire” is identified as the only explicitly transhumanist, peer-reviewed journal/series in Europe, providing a scholarly venue for post-human studies.  
- India’s Kerala Sasthra Sahithya Parishad is noted as a long-running “people’s science movement,” offering a non-Western model for grassroots scientific literacy and activism.  
- A Make Magazine blog post features low-cost webcam microscopy, illustrating how DIY imaging tools are gaining mainstream visibility.  
- Google’s Crisis Response KML layer for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill is shared as an example of open geodata outperforming traditional media for real-time environmental monitoring.  
- NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) near-real-time image feed (AIA 171 Å) is circulated, showing how live space-weather data can be tapped for citizen research.