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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, chairman of the Swedish Skeptics Society, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.

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Google Knol Live

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Posted on: July 23, 2008 3:39 PM, by Martin R

Alun tells me that Google Knol is now live. It's like Wikipedia, only written by experts and pwned by Google. Check it out!

Also, I happened upon Everything2, this other weird & interesting hypertext community where anything goes, not modeled on an encyclopedia.

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Not necessarily by experts, as I'll be writing a few, but there will be known authorship. It's more a moderated version of Wikipedia. For instance you'll always have nutters who think Buffy is better than Sabrina, but now they won't be able to vandalise the article with sentences like "Buffy shows more more character development in a world where goals are earned rather than the simplistic wish-fulfillment of Sabrina" because I'll have to approve them before they get added to the knol.

Of course if you do disagree, then you'll be able to make your own entirely separate Buffy knol, which would be a blow if a special interest group wanted to police an entry.

Posted by: Alun | July 24, 2008 5:32 AM

Get with the times and down with the lingo, you gaffer. Knol is owned by Google. Wikipedia is pwned by Knol.

Posted by: Pär | July 24, 2008 7:08 AM

Pär, eat my shorts.

Posted by: Martin R | July 24, 2008 11:04 AM

Thanks for the link.

to pwn

1. To own in the sense of defeat.
2. To beat someone or something by a wide margin, usually in relation to a game.

Posted by: Pär | July 24, 2008 11:11 AM