[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Knol goes live

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Nathan <nawrich at 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 at 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