From: Sheldon Rampton sheldon@prwatch.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Knol goes live
A blogger at the LA Times wonders when the "gold rush" will start for people to claim ownership of articles on Knol:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/webscout/2008/07/knol-has-nothin.html
In particular, he pointed out that Knol does not currently have an article about Wikipedia, so I decided to do my part and create one:
http://knol.google.com/k/sheldon-rampton/-/8r9tdjdcsltq/2#
I basically cut-and-pasted the existing Wikipedia article, although I did make one minor correction. The current version fails to credit me as Wikipedia's creator. It mentions some guy named Jimmy Wales instead. Anyway, I fixed it in my Knol version. ;-)
Heh. They don't appear to have a "talk" sorta' page. So I can't lambast you about how Wikipedia was actually created by Al Gore, two years before he invented the internet, with the assistance of space aliens from the planet Rigel 7 and 1/3. And Bill Gates, can't forget him.
But that's gonna' be a major failing of it. People don't have the ability to say something's crap except by rating it lowly, and people on the internet tend to rate funny things highly instead of truthful things.
[[User:Lifebaka]]