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viscousmemories
07-24-2008, 11:41 PM
There's a new Google thing in town, and it's called knol (http://knol.google.com). Share your expert knowledge or opinion with the world and (if you don't mind having ads on your knols) get paid for it. Looks interesting.
ITSOZAZ
07-24-2008, 11:49 PM
:plotting:
godfry n. glad
07-25-2008, 12:18 AM
A new tool, discredited by a single smiley.
ITSOZAZ
07-25-2008, 12:22 AM
;)
fragment
07-25-2008, 04:51 AM
So, it's wiki with each author having their own article rather than edit warring the same one? How does quality control and enforcing the content policy work?
JoeP
07-25-2008, 10:16 AM
A new tool, discredited by a single smiley.

ITSOZ isn't that new.
Pan Narrans
07-26-2008, 05:23 PM
My knol, let me show you it:

http://www.assuredproduce.co.uk/resources/000/145/545/celeriac_main.jpg
Ensign Steve
07-26-2008, 07:38 PM
What the hell is that? A potato?
JoeP
07-26-2008, 08:21 PM
It's a celeriac. Why it appears in this thread I have no idea.
godfry n. glad
07-26-2008, 08:36 PM
Perhaps it is a 'knol' in Utrecht?
Kyuss Apollo
07-26-2008, 11:41 PM
Looks more like a toinup!
Ymir's blood
07-27-2008, 12:50 AM
:medal:
JoeP
07-27-2008, 08:12 AM
Turnip
http://schmidling.com/turnip1.jpg

Celeriac
http://www.celeriac.com/gifs/celeriac.jpg

In next week's lesson: what is a swede?
Caligulette
07-28-2008, 05:34 AM
My "knol" includes knowing how to spell "Knowledge". I am unreasonably cross about the mal-spelling of the half-word.
MonCapitan2002
07-28-2008, 07:00 AM
That kind of shit bothers me as well as it degrades the language. Either spell it properly or shut the fuck up. I remember a while back an advertising campaign in my city's public transportation system that employed billboards with the language and spelling used in text messaging.

Their mangling of the language made me swear off their product. The thing with Google's new 'knol' service sounds similar. They should be engaging in efforts to preserve proper spelling and grammar, not degrading it further.
JoeP
07-28-2008, 09:41 AM
:sadyup:
Stormlight
07-28-2008, 11:22 AM
Perhaps it is a 'knol' in Utrecht?

It is indeed a Knol (also in Luxembourg, btw). The name "Knol" for Google's new project sounds just stupid.
Watser?
07-28-2008, 12:25 PM
A turnip would also be a knol. And we actually pronounce the k.

Any tuberous root is a knol.
viscousmemories
07-28-2008, 01:14 PM
For what it's worth, I share the opinion that knol is a stupid name. For a turnip and an article.