Joel Patrick

History of a collaboration

John Udell has been writing about collaboration for quite a while. He has a fine eye for the way people interact using computers (especially the Internet).  His latest work is a very creative retrospective on an article from the Wikipedia on heavy metal punctuation.  Fascinating.

In fact, the blog is gaining traction as a serious academic tool.  This article from the BBC tells more about this.  It is interesting to remember that the original purpose of the World Wide Web was as a means of accelerating communication and peer review among nuclear physicists within the CERN (Centre européen de recherche nucléaire). That Wikipedia story is here.