Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton sends in his latest, which begins like this and continues behind the link. "When Google's VP of Engineering announced their proposed Knol project, where users can submit articles on different subjects and... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Fri, Feb 15 2008
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New York's Slap to the Facebook » slashdot Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton writes "Last month Facebook had to submit to some ritualistic lashing when New York Attorney General Cuomo accused them of misrepresenting the site's safety features and exposing minors to sexual predators --... |
| 14 Dec 07 |
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Google's "Knol" Reinvents Wikipedia » slashdot teslatug writes "Google appears to be reinventing Wikipedia with their new product that they call knol (not yet publicly available). In an attempt to gather human knowledge, Google will accept articles from users who will be credited with the article by... |
| 23 Jul 08 |
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Google's Knol, Expert Wiki, Goes Live » slashdot Brian Jordan and other readers sent in word that Google has taken the wraps off Knol, its expert-written challenger to Wikipedia. (We discussed Knol when it was announced last year.) Wired has an in-depth look. Knol's distinctions from Wikipedia are that... |
| 21 Feb 08 |
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Politicians and the Cyber-Bully Pulpit » slashdot Regular Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton has cyber-bullying on his mind; that and the laws proposed to deal with it. His article begins: "The authors of most of the recently proposed anti-cyberbullying laws have been invoking the tragic case of Megan... |
| 11 Feb 08 |
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Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta! » slashdot Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton writes with his latest which starts "If I were writing laws such that I wanted everybody to agree on how to interpret them, I would use the software development life cycle: First, have lawmakers (analogous to... |
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