On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:47 AM, <WJhonson(a)aol.com> wrote:
Farhad has a fatal flaw in his argument (I assume it
is a *he*). His flaw
is believing that Knol is an encyclopedia and that it is "the next
Wikipedia".
Neither situation represents what Knol actually is.
Knol is an online magazine -- multiple authors with bylines (credit),
writing mostly individual articles *with some small input* and doing so to promote
their business or themselves. That's not the reason d'etre of an
encyclopedia.
This was what was wrong with much of the media discussion of Knol at its launch.
Google's own message at the time was that Knol is a publishing
platform that's something of a complement to another of its
properties, Blogger, but unfortunately the media found Wikipedia to be
a more headline grabbing comparison.
http://thoughtsfordeletion.blogspot.com/2008/07/kno-contest.html
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Stephen Bain
stephen.bain(a)gmail.com