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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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