The Wikipedia’s heavy metal umlaut page is a pretty amazing thing in itself. But this is even more amazing.
Jon Udell has been pioneering what he calls “screencasting,” an unusual sort of online journalism that involves taking over your browser screen with screengrabs and animations while he narrates via the audio track. It always seemed mildly interesting to me as a way to do technology demos and product walkthroughs and the like; but with this piece, Udell has taken the form to a higher level, and shown us that it’s something weird and wonderful — and unique to our new Web world.
Plus we get a full technical education in the difficulty of producing an umlauted “n” on screen, an investigation into an act of drive-by wiki vandalism, and an anthropological chronicle of the behavior of Wikipedia contributors. Bravo!
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