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

Wed Jul 23 21:02:46 UTC 2008

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

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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