[WikiEN-l] Knol goes from a Wikipedia rival to a Craigslist imitator

[WJhonson]

Evidently I am now a media darling

http://www.google.com/search?source=ighl=enrlz==q=knol+craigslist

The oddest part of this entire experience (other than the fact that it shot 
me up to over 1,000 views a day), is how much of this news is either 
simple reposting of titles with link, or bloggers copying each other in a sort 
of feeding frenzy.

I've never personally become involved in the blogging world.  I would think 
that a person would want original content, not merely be blogger number 87 
on the list of people blogging about the really important news like me 
selling a pair of speakers ;)

I'm world famous!  I get more views than President uh... Harding... or 
something.  Ok maybe Zachary Taylor, at any rate I'm famous!

Maybe I'll write a knol about it.  Sort of keep the cycle churning.  How do 
you do that exactly?  I've never figured out completely how to be a media 
whore, but I'm willing to learn.  Any whores want to teach me tricks?

Will Media Whore Wannabe Johnson



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[WikiEN-l] Knol goes from a Wikipedia rival to a Craigslist imitator

[Keith Old]

G'day folks,
From TechCrunch

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/11/poor-google-knol-has-gone-from-a-wikipedia-killer-to-a-craigslist-wannabe/


We’ve known for a while that Google’s Knol http://knol.google.com/ is no
Wikipedia 
killerhttp://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/25/why-google-knol-is-no-wikipedia/,
but now the knowledge-sharing site is being reduced to a sad Craigslist
wannabe. The original
ideahttp://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/23/googles-knol-the-monetizable-wikipedia/
behind
Knol was that people could collaboratively write definitive articles about
any topic they like and get rewarded by earning a share of the AdSense
revenues for each page they author. Well, that model doesn’t work so well if
nobody bothers to read the articles on Knol no matter how much search karma
Google gives them. Quantcast
estimateshttp://www.quantcast.com/knol.google.com that
only 174,000 people visited the site in the past month.

So what do you do if your Knol page isn’t throwing up enough AdSense pennies
to make it worth your while? You try to sell a pair of stereo speakers
directly to the few lost souls who somehow end up at Knol. Will Johnson, a
self-described “professional genealogist and biographer,” decided to share
his Knol-edge of a pair of “Bose 2.2 direct reflecting bookshelf speakers
for 
sale”http://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/bose-22-direct-reflecting-bookshelf/4hmquk6fx4gu/277#—his
own (only $70). In fact, he started his own Knol
Marketplacehttp://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/my-knol-marketplace/4hmquk6fx4gu/267#
 and 
bookstorehttp://knol.google.com/k/will-johnson/wjhonsons-bookstore/4hmquk6fx4gu/268#
.

More in story.

Regards



*Keith*
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