the script of the June 9 episode of The Show with Ze Frank was developed on a wiki in a week

the medium of "why wasn't I consulted"

"there is a general lesson: we should look for ways to facilitate fast and flexible collaboration that is forgiving with respect to what the technology enables and in our attitudes towards our peers"

content filtering is outsourced to cubicle farms; screeners generally make sub-living wage and psychiatric care is not covered

"I view the events as an experiment in subverting power structures. I had none of the traditional power over others that is inherent to the structure of corporations and bureaucracies. I had neither budget nor headcount. I answered to no one, and no one had to do anything I asked. Dozens of people collaborated spontaneously, motivated by loyalty, friendship, or the love of craftsmanship. We were hackers, creating something for the sheer joy of making it work."

example of the collaboration stack: Twitter + GoogleDocs + DropBox

self-hosted project collaboration and management

an extremely simplistic flash-based picture-chat

a collection of 51 strategies "representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for"

or a most lightweight wiki

discussion from Jane on player-generated content in ARGs

Jane defines (coins) ten collaboration strengths that top ARGonauts display, and suggests that these strengths should be encouraged more broadly

the Mechanical Turk goes starwatching

the Mechanical Turk goes birdwatching

Jane posits that in the near future, the MMORPG will be mated with SETI@home to perform science

"a directory of patterns and anti-patterns, and a guide to major stages of wiki adoption that explores patterns to apply at each stage"

"In spite of email’s universal success (as a collaboration tool), and in spite of its many good traits, email contains deep, inherent flaws that force users and markets to seek alternatives to collaborating via email."