Bennett Haselton contributes the following essay on the consequences of license choice as it applies to sites based on user contributions; read on below for more of his big idea for making Knol a more useful resource. "Google Knol should allow its writers... ...full story at slashdot
from slashdot on Fri, Sep 19 2008
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| 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... |
| 15 Feb 08 |
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The Knol Hypothesis » slashdot 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... |
| 14 Dec 07 |
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Google Knol might choke Wikipedia, Squidoo » digg News broke late yesterday that Google was preparing to launch a new site call Knol that will combine parts of Wikipedia and Squidoo to create a new user generated authoritative online knowledgebase of everything. |
| 20 Jan 09 |
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Google Knol 6 Months Later: Wikipedia Need Not Worry » digg What happened to Knol? Announced by Google in late 2007 and launched in July 2008, the site was meant to bring more credible (read: not written by anonymous Wikipedians) "knowledge units" to the web, and it would allow the authors to cash in on their... |
| 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... |
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