
.....Google is developing an online publishing platform where people can write entries on subjects they know, an idea that's close to Wikipedia's user-contributed encyclopedia but with key differences.
.....The project, which is in an invitation-only beta stage, lets users create clean-looking Web pages with their photo and write entries on, for example, insomnia. Those entries are called "knols" for "unit of knowledge," Google said.
.....Google wants the knols to develop into a deep repository of knowledge, covering topics such as geography, history and entertainment.
.....Google's project will have to catch up with Wikipedia, which includes more than 7 million articles in 200 languages. Anonymous users constantly update Wikipedia entries in an ever-growing online encyclopedia that's edited by a network of vetted editors.
.....But Google asserts that the Web's development so far has neglected the importance of the bylined author.
....."We believe that knowing who wrote what will significantly help users make better use of web content," wrote Udi Manber, vice president of engineering, on the official Google blog….. (UPDATE: see also Wikipedia Competitor Being Tested by Google)

.....The board of Cambridge College has placed Mahesh Sharma, the institution’s president, on leave after finding that he tried to use college funds to pay for his nephew’s tuition and that he appointed as a vice president a man whose company had a six-figure contract with Cambridge, The Boston Globe reported. Sharma did not respond to calls from the Globe seeking comment….
* In this morning’s LA Times: Orange County is again an uneasy investor:

.....Merrill's role in selling the debt instruments to Orange County is emerging just one year after the Board of Supervisors voted to reestablish full business ties with the firm, over the objections of politicians who served during the bankruptcy.
.....…The Nov. 30 warning by Moody's Investors Service that it might downgrade $460 million in securities held by Orange County forced the treasurer's office to write down their value by nearly $13.8 million. The write-down led to a $12.4-million paper loss for the month of November.
.....…Concerns over the investments have also added to Treasurer Chriss Street's political woes.
.....Street faces a previously scheduled vote by the Board of Supervisors next week on whether to strip him of his authority over the county investment pool. Supervisors have cited Street's business dealings before entering public office a year ago, a $750,000 office remodel and his handling of contracts to redesign the exterior of his building....
(Street is one of Trustee Tom Fuentes' many corrupt pals. See Orange County: home of the rat bastard.)
4 comments:
Mahesh Sharma must be one of the Chicana liberal queens
I'm glad that Wikipedia will have competition!
This should be interesting. Wikipedia runs on donations (meaning, you have to pay THEM to keep them up), and Google has a seemingly infinite amount of money (enough so, in fact, that they will apparently pay YOU to allow them to put ads on your knol).
Who could possibly pull ahead here? Google with their seemingly infinite money gets my bets.
Plus, Knols is just a cool sounding measurement.
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