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Google went live with Knol, a platform to read and write articles on all kinds of
subjects. Knol was being tested privately since some time and had been pre-announced
back in 2007. The address is knol.google.com, but notably not knol.com or knol.org
or even googleknol.com. This project is somewhat reminiscent of Wikipedia, though
there are many differences as well. You may also think of this as an alternative
to creating a small info website if your aim is to cover only a single subject.

When you log-in within your Google account to write an article on a subject you're
familiar with, yo ...

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Google went live with KnolKnol, a platform to read and write articles on all kinds
of subjects. Knol was being tested privately since some time and had been pre-announcedpre-announced
back in 2007. The address is knol.google.com, but notably not knol.com or knol.org
or even googleknol.com. This project is somewhat reminiscent of Wikipedia, though
there are many differences as well. You may also think of this as an alternative
to creating a small info website if your aim is to cover only a single subject.

When you log-in within your Google account to write an article on a subject youre
familiar with, youll use the kind of live-layout editor typical for Google (and
much easier to use than Wikipedias editor). For every article you can also choose
your licensing, your collaboration, and your advertising model. For instance, you
can connect an article to your AdSense account this triggers a verification process.
You can pick a license; either a Creative Commons Attribution licenseCreative Commons
Attribution license, or a Creative Commons attribution non-commercial license, or
the old-style all rights reserved. And for collaboration, you can pick *open* (everyone
whos signed in can edit), *moderated* (everyone can suggest edits but you or another
author will be able to approve these before they would go live this is the default
setting), and *closed* (meaning only owners i.e. admins and authors can edit).

*Editing a page, and visualizing article revisions*
Right now, a lot of the existing Knols Google defines a knol as a unit of knowledge,
and perhaps this will be how people name articles hosted on Knol too deal with
subjects of a more serious or scientific nature, like health. (Googles help page
says you can write (Almost) anything you like, adding that you pick the subject
and write it the way you see fit as they dont edit knols nor do they try to enforce
any particular viewpoint... subject to the terms of service and their content policy,
which disallows e.g. images containing nudity, and spam, a rather broad term in
this case. You may also not write anything commercial if youre in Cuba, Iran, Burma
(Myanmar), North Korea, Syria, or Sudan, Google says.)
Other articles, like the frontpage-featured How to BackpackHow to Backpack, are
of a lighter nature, but still very long and detailed. (Ive started a collaborative
stub covering FriendFeedstub covering FriendFeed.) On that note, even the URL is
quite long, and includes the owners name... a peculiar choice for collaborative
pages, and a potential barrier if you consider going for the open collaboration
model, as people may associate other peoples edits with yours.

Naturally, the current articles are just the sites seeding it remains to be seen
in what direction it grows. The quality of wikis and other projects hoping for user
participation often depend on a good community spirit, which in turn often reflects
a companys karma... and usually, thats the sum of that companys past actions.
Reading an article, there is a nice table of contents featured on top. The header
section in general takes up quite a bit of space for Knol articles. Considering
the focus of these articles is to get a point across, the font for the main content
that follows is awkwardly small. On articles there are now a couple of review features
for other users, even when you dont have the permission to hit the Edit button on
top: you may be able to comment; you can rate an article; you can flag it as inappropriate;
and last not least, you can review it. When you start a review, the Knol editor
as usual opens slightly sluggish at this time, as are some other parts of the site
(with its dynamic, on-page JavaScript reloads), though these may be launch effects
and you can add your opinions. Peer review is something known especially from the
science community, which the Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin know
well too (peer review even allegedly inspired Larry Page to create the back-links
counting PageRank algorithm which led to their BackrubBackrub engine, and later,
Google search).
If we do want to compare this project to WikipediaWikipedia, then perhaps we can
think of Knol, at least at this time, as slightly more top-down than the bottoms-up,
everyone-can-edit Wikipedia.org. While more and more Wikipedia too is adding restrictions
and special rights, their original spirit could perhaps be summed up with by and
large people want to do good, and many small, even hasty edits, add up to a by and
large great quality. And then perhaps Google Knols stance is more like, someones
responsible for an article, changes will be owner-approved by default, and peoples
actions will be rated. Using a biography page and a real name is suggested as well,
and Google offers a verification method (you can verifyverify via your mobile phone,
or a credit card... at least the latter method was broken when I tried).
Lets see how these two models compare against each other; theres a lot to be won
by allowing everyone to quickly do edits, but a more tightly controlled model may
have benefits as well. And perhaps all those people complaining about Wikipedia
or who had Wikipedia articles they started be deleted, as Wikipedia does not allow
all kinds of entries will now consider Knol a potential new home for research and
sharing. And theres another big difference to Wikipedia: at Knol youll potentially
get paid, through the AdSense ads. Which would mean that the more popular your article,
among other factors, the higher your revenues. And Google gets a share of these
revenues, naturally (even when Google Knol is listed as an entity separate from
AdSense with a 0%% sharea 0%% share in the process)... though Im not so sure exactly
how they aim to pay collaborators on articles. Money can be an incentive but may
also cause friction. Itll be interesting to watch where this project goes; and even
if you may prefer the Wikipedia style of collaborative publishing, it seems a little
competition cant hurt.
[Thanks HebbetHebbet and Manoj Nahar!]
*[By Philipp Lenssen | Origin: Google Knol Is LiveGoogle Knol Is Live | CommentsComments]*

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Knol
http://knol.google.com
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pre-announced
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html
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Creative Commons Attribution license
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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How to Backpack
http://knol.google.com/k/ryan-moulton/how-to-backpack/oggVvQ9h/aMOKbQ#
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stub covering FriendFeed
http://knol.google.com/k/philipp-lenssen/friendfeed/5cuavxy8t4mh/2
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Backrub
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-28-n47.html
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Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
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verify
http://blogoscoped.com/files/verbose-knol.png
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a 0%% share
http://blogoscoped.com/files/knol-account-access.png
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Hebbet
http://googlewatchblog.de/
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Google Knol Is Live
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-07-23-n20.html
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Comments
http://blogoscoped.com/forum/find/?postId=7990
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KeywordDiscovery.com
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