Google Knol – a new Wiki
Google recently announced the launch of Knol.
What is being considered a Knol? A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.
Knols were written by authoritative people who actually knows about the topics. Nowadays, Knol is open for everyone.
Every Knol would have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. The content represents their knowledge and opinion.
Google is trying to introduce “moderated collaboration”. Readers can suggest or comment on the articles, and the authors would have control over what they have published.
Bonus: Google has an agreement with the New Yorker magazine which allows any author to add one cartoon per knol from the New Yorker’s extensive cartoon repository.
Know something? Want to share? Knol it.
