[nanomonkey]

This feels like a submarine article, so I'm going to go off on a tangent, and ask, "For how long will this be true?"

With evolving documents like wikipedia and Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDTs) coming into favor, it feels like writing could be a cooperative and multi-player game. Most of the meetings I go to have an EtherPad open for all the participants to collaboratively take notes during the discussion. I'd assume that collaborative editing of documents will become more of the norm.

Like exercising, perhaps one could show up and write in a shared document so as not to let your fellow writer's down.

[Arcanum-XIII]

No everyone likes to work in group (I don't). Tools to work in group are quite often very different than tool to work in isolation (by needs).

[samatman]

There's nothing submarine about it, Justin is shilling his community quite openly at the end, if you asked him "hey what's that last paragraph about" I expect he'd reply "I'm shilling indiethinkers what does it look like".

Submarine is when you launder your ad through some putatively neutral platform, Justin runs otherlife, there's no mystery here.

[azangru]

> Justin is shilling his community quite openly at the end

Yeah, I got curious about that, and googled for the word. "Enroll, One-Time, $550", it said. Right :-)

[jotm]

That's social media and it sucks.

[mrtnmcc]

Social media could learn a thing or two from Wikipedia--scalable collaboration that is actually constructive.