[WikiEN-l] Knol goes live

[Keith Old]

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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