Whither the Knol? Google Takes a New Experiment Live

Courtesy Linux Today  Fri, 07/25/2008 - 10:30

ConsortiumInfo: "Back in December of last year, Google posted a brief announcement of a new experiment in online publishing.

At first blush it seemed to represent a challenge to the Wikipedia - but with a few differences. Google summarized the concept as follows:

"Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling "knol", which stands for a unit of knowledge.

Our goal is to encourage people who...


 

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