On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Nathan
<nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> From the NY Times Bits blog see:
>
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/wikipedia-meet-knol/index.html?hp
>
> cc'd to Foundation-l.
>
> Nathan
>
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Keith Old <keithold(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> G'day fellow Wikipedians,
>>
>> Google has announced that Knol has gone live.
>>
>>
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/knol-is-open-to-everyone.html
>>
>> "A few months ago we
>> announced<
>>
>>
>
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html
>
>>> that
>>>
>> we were testing a new product called
>> Knol <http://knol.google.com/>. Knols are authoritative articles about
>> specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today,
>> we're making Knol available to everyone.
>>
>> The web contains vast amounts of information, but not everything worth
>> knowing is on the web. An enormous amount of information resides in
>> people's
>> heads: millions of people know useful things and billions more could
>> benefit
>> from that knowledge. Knol will encourage these people to contribute their
>> knowledge online and make it accessible to everyone.
>> The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an
>>
> author
>
>> (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. It's their
>> knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple
>> knols on the same subject, and we think that is good."
>>
>> (More in link)
>>
>> The Knol website is live here.
>>
>>
http://knol.google.com/k#
>>
>> The featured content ranges from How to backpack to Type 1 diabetes.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> *Keith Old
>> *
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Hoi,
I wish them well... there is a need for good information and, if it proves
to be competition, we will have to do better :_
NB Knoll being English only is ceding more then half of
our market to us.
Thanks,
GerardM
Heh;
do we get the hand of the princess in marriage too?
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen