A nice read for the weekend: Michael Nielsen on Doing science in the open in Physics World.
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And I don't refer here to his humor, his lifestyle, or even his hair.
Sometimes good things happen to good people and this is certainly the case.
Michael Nielsen has been named a SPARC Innovator for 2012.
Follow up on this story (re-check the links within for background):
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Open-source science doesn't make any sense. The analogy to open-source programming is very shallow. However, no doubt science will evolve to take advantage of communications tools more effectively.