Ideas to improve the world

There's lots of community work happening again these days.

NY Times recently launched their community (about) which is actually nicely done. Besides rss they have a FB app ready and they idea behind & the design of the community seems appropriate for a news site (very slim, keeping the content in focus).

Google launched a new project to generate ideas from the web community with the goal to improve the world: http://www.project10tothe100.com
I mean Google always wants to improve the world and gives the web community lots 'o neet tools without ulterior motives but this is a big one. They're giving out 10 mio. $ for those ideas.