Open Notebooks

Here's an article discussing the idea of open notebooks for the benefit of researchers. There is also a link to someone who is using a wiki for their notebook.

I agree with this author that open notebooks could be very useful for researchers. Too many mistakes are made again and again because no one published that a certain technique doesn't work. The whole scientific community could improve its efficiency if there was more communication between bench researchers.

The wiki example for an open notebook is a good start but I think it will have many problems for broad adoption. I believe that a user-friendly electronic notebook will be necessary before there is broad adoption of open notebooks.