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Google puts Wikipedia in the crosshairs with Knol
Knol will focus on credit for authors who "own" pages within the system. Write a bad page, lose your reputation. Write a better page than one which currently exists, and knock it out of the top spot. It's free market dynamics and modern credit reporting all rolled into one and applied to encyclopedia style information. Google, for it's part, seemingly intends to be hands off in the management of Knol, foregoing any oversight structure similar to that in place at Wikipedia or Mahalo.
While we find this all super interesting, we're going to stop short of prognosticating about the death of Wikipedia. Other industry pundits are calling it "a game changer" and "huge"; We've decided to wait until Monday to predict Wikipedia's imminent death. It's called journalism, look it up.
Oddly enough, there is no current Wikipedia entry for "Knol". Maybe we should pitch in and create one?
[via Paris Lemon]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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LeeH said 7:07AM on 12-14-2007
The WP article has been initiated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol
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burnblue said 11:52AM on 12-14-2007
'lose' reputation, not "loose"
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grant.robertson said 11:53AM on 12-14-2007
D'oh, missed that. Thanks for the edit, it was _really_ late when I wrote this.
"Me fail English? That's unpossible!"
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