Google Knol Goes Public
As you’ve probably heard, Google Knol launched publicly today. It’s considered a more or less direct competitor to Wikipedia, as it permits anybody to author an…
Read articleClay Shirky and How I Accidentally Broke My Television Habit
If you’ve been on the web in the past week, you’ve probably seen references to Clay Shirky’s terrific talk (or video, if you prefer) at Web…
Read articleNicholson Baker on Wikipedia
One of my favourite writers, Nicholson Baker, recently wrote an essay on Wikipedia for The New York Review of Books: Wikipedia was the point of convergence…
Read articleWant an Invitation to Qassia?
I’ve been running this Knol blog (though, ironically, Google’s project may actually be called Unipedia) with an occasional post, and paying attention to the space. Today…
Read articleYou Know, the Spice Girls Are Liars
I was just inexplicably humming their first hit, “Wanna Be”, which of course features this claim: If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with…
Read articleMy New, Spur of the Moment Blog on Google Knol
About six or eight hours ago Yesterday (I lost a day somewhere), Google announced a new project which threatens the balance of expert content creation on…
Read articleThe Lovely, Evolutionary Growth of Wikipedia Articles
I periodically contribute to Wikipedia. One of my favourite Wikipedia phenomenon is the seemingly organic growth and distillation of articles, from tiny saplings to towering firs.…
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