In a message dated 9/23/2008 6:30:33 AM Pacific Daylight Time, dgerard@gmail.com writes:

I'm really not convinced it's a good approach at all to the question: "what is useful to the reader?">>

------------------------------ David I agree in general. I'll make an exception for my utterly fabulous biography of Alice Ghostley ("Esmerelda" on Bewitched, and "Berniece Clifton" on Designing Women).

In general however, many of the biographies on Knol are sub-standard, ranking far below what Wikipedia has on that same person. But then when Wikipedia was *new*, the vast majority of biographies were also sub-standard. Knol hasn't yet hit a critical mass. And the critical mass for Knol, since now, on one person you can have dozens of biographies... what is it? Does that mean we need ten times more Knol editors, just to get one good biography of Obama ? Or will each of those new editors try to write their own crappy one?

No I'm not convinced that Knol is going to turn out any better, but it's certainly *different* !

Will Johnson

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