[OWW-Discuss] Googlepedia?

[Jason Kelly]

Interesting, but I bet it falls flat.  Content with authorship
attached is all over the web already on blogs, forums, etc (and those
people already get $ for contributing that content through
advertising)  What makes Wikipedia into such a great resource is that
instead of getting an article written by a single author followed by a
hard-to-read chain of comments/corrections, you get the corrections
incorporated directly into the article.

The amazing thing that wikipedia proved is that you can get these
improvements/contribution without authorship (or without people
getting paid).  What's unknown is whether you could get mass
improvements/contributions if you pay people or if you have authorship
-- wikipedia would probably break if they introduced either of those
things.

will be interesting to watch
jason

On Dec 14, 2007 8:46 AM, Barry Canton <bcanton at mit.edu> wrote:
> Google is testing a new project that sounds like an attempt to compete with
> Wikipedia.
>
>
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html
>
> An interesting sentence - " At the discretion of the author, a knol may
> include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the
> author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads."
>
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> Barry Canton
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> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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