[WikiEN-l] Knol goes live

[Sheldon Rampton]

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. ;-)

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SHELDON RAMPTON
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