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Unpublished
Not long ago, an "unpublished" work was one that had never been published. Boing Boing comments moderator Teresa Nielsen Hayden unintentionally popularized a new meaning of the word when she used it to describe posts the Boingers had erased from their site: "We unpublished our own work. There's a big difference between that and censorship." Now, Google's Wikipedia competitor Knol has completely broken the word's meaning. "The requested biographical knol has been unpublished by the author." Doesn't that sound like I wrote and then deleted my bio, rather than that I've yet to write it? Don't go hunting through Google's cache for it — you'll be sadly un-successful.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Cynical Tech Media Bitch: As I recall, the courts use "depublish" when they retract a published opinion. (Between people who don't use dictionaries to check... more » | Other threads
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jason calacanis
Your only hope is that Google will kill you last
Flaxen-locked funtrepreneur Jason Calacanis says Google has been a content company for a while now. With Knol, the Googlers plan to become the Internet's reference library rather than just its card catalog. I used the editorial equivalent of gzip to compress Calacanis's arguments down to 1/10 size. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Dror Poleg: @Dror Poleg: They only way they're (Microsoft AND Google) going to get really hurt is when a disruptive technology/model comes... more » | Other threads
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recap
Jackson West, please come home — all is forgiven
Why did I let Jackson West take a vacation? While our associate editor was away, we actually wrote something nice about Gavin Newsom — and he only had to save San Francisco from a rogue IT guy to do it! Microsoft's Windows chief, Kevin Johnson, ended up in Sunnyvale, Calif. — but not, as he'd hoped, in the corner office at Yahoo HQ. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg flubbed more media interviews this week, prompting us to suggest he get help. Maybe he could take tips from the Internet-famous Julia Allison, who crashed his developers' conference? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by BartKela: @mrfomoco: Yes, that's what blog comments are for! more » | Other threads
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A Unit of Knowledge
Send us your tired Knols, your poor Knols, your multilevel marketing Knols yearning to breathe free
Google's first day of public access to its Wikipedia-but-wonkier Knol site feels rigged by typical Valley PR: Knol's front page lists a series of medical and home-economics articles more akin to Reader's Digest than the Internet. Everyone knows the true value of Knol will be its comprehensive catalog of Cowboy Troy lyrics and first-person bios like the one for Michael Lee written by, of course, "Mike Lee, Internet Entrepreneur." Google, a former search engine company, hasn't hooked up the search box on Knol's homepage. But you can find knols by including the quoted phrase "a knol by" in a regular Googling. Find any good ones? Send in the stupidest/funniest Knols you can find. This is going to have even more legs than the bulldog pics. -
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Hello Knol, goodbye Wikipedia
The back-channel chatter on Google's Wikipedia-like Knol database, which opened to public editing today, is simple: Google plans to use Knol to replace Wikipedia, then serve ads on it. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by ThaiKitchen: @chirag: That means your site won't get a higher page rank because of it but not that wikipedia won't profit... more » | Other threads
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rachel marsden
Jimmy Wales's former Fox fling wins the Knol land rush
You guys are slow! Conservative pundit Rachel Marsden has already penned roving Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales's first biography on Knol, Google's write-it-yourself compendium of articles. "And it will be a closed collaboration," she adds. Unlike Wikipedia, Knol lets an article's initial author control all subsequent edits. Other contributors can write their own articles about Jimmy, but Marsden's prank hints that Knol fights — in which multiple people attempt to author the definitive entry on a topic — will be a lot more fun to watch than re-re-re-reversions of the same old Wikipedia page.
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By Paul BoutinComment by WilliamMarkFelt: @colonelpanic - LOL "the love that dare not speak it's name..." that's pretty good Colonel, I gotta hand it... more » | Other threads
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internet famous
With Knol, Google provides new tool for self-promotion
Google's Wikipedia competitor, Knol, is now open to the public. Take a hint from journalist Cyrus Farivar: "Yes, I added an entry on myself to Wikipedia. Why haven't you?" Unlike Wikipedia, Knol doesn't yet have complex rules requiring you to use a sock puppet account to write about yourself. Go literally make history!
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By Paul BoutinComment by SandHillSnobbery: Google should have bought out (or at least tried to) all of the folks in this space (wikipedia, about, associated... more » | Other threads
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the chart
There's competition for Google's Knol, and then there's Mahalo
Google Knol may or may not ever come to fruition, but Hitwise was kind enough to put together this chart of its potential rivals in the market for websites which answer your questions. And yes, Jason Calacanis's Mahalo is on there. You have to squint. It's way, way, way down there at the bottom. That little sliver of green. No wonder Calacanis is always commenting here with a link to the site. Think he'll do it again on this post? More »
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Comment by HubPages: I'm Jason and I'd happily promote my site (okay, I'm Jason Menayan, and the site is HubPages). Google's Knol is almost... more » | Other threads
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quotable
"It's trying to set up an economy of writing and the Web is a great place to try to experiment with different economies. Wikipedia has already succeeded with one, and these are two different styles." — Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki and a Wikipedia board member, responding to Google's competing Knol, an experiment to create its own repository of content. And I thought the all-volunteer Wikipedia was just beginning to experiment with economies themselves. [Read/WriteWeb] -
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Mr. Calacanis, we got your tweet!
On his way back from Paris this morning, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis realized he had left his passport at his hotel. Savvy Web 3.0 guru that he is, Calacanis sent the above Twitter to the whole world. OMG! This whole thing is my fault for hassling him so much — over the phone, via IM — during what should have been a relaxing trip to Paris. Mr. Calacanis sir, here's the best I could do on short notice. Hope it helps! More »
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Comment by Tiltawhorl: @GinaMuchava: Now, the Canadian government has apologized for Calacanis on several occasions. more » | Other threads
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bad ideas
Google introduces Knol, which may not actually exist
Google introduced Knol to the public yesterday. It's a sort-of About.com meets Wikipedia, and could smash all of Jason Calacanis's Mahalo dreams. Or at least, the sort-of introduced Knol could. If we ever hear about it again. More »
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Comment by 0x6772: @Paul Boutin: Oh, so unlike Wikipedia, it encourages advertising. That sounds Great! more » | Other threads
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