{"id":1973,"date":"2008-07-29T21:19:21","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2008-07-29T21:19:21","modified_gmt":"2008-07-30T00:19:21","slug":"know-knol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1973","title":{"rendered":"Know. Knol."},"content":{"rendered":"

L<\/span>ast week, Google opened their ‘Knol’ site<\/a> for the general public: It’s a knowledgebase and it’s targeting the other knowledgebase we learnt to hate and love, Wikipedia<\/a>. The web itself is divided in the (usual) camps: Love it and Hate it. To me, it looks like Google has actually learned from the problems that Wikipedia (still) has: the site is actually a lot easier to read, plus, contributors don’t seem to be hiding behind usernames. For example, there’s this excellent article on colon cancer<\/a>, which, by far, seem to be more informational than Wikipedia’s entry<\/a>. Additionally, it seems that Knol contributors seem to disclose their affiliations to commercial entities. I only find Google’s choice of name a bit unfortunate.\n<\/p>\n

The other site I want to mention is NASA images<\/a>, which is a site, powered by the Internet Archive, that hosts, you guessed it, NASA images from the past. There’s way too much to discover on that site and I wouldn’t do it an honour to try to fit it in a small paragraph: The Spaceflight section is amazing and comprehensive, albeit a kind of obnoxious to navigate through (kind of ‘sliding’ pictures pop-up interface, that isn’t all to user-friendly). Pictures and photos can be zoomed in and downloaded (for free, of course).\n<\/p>\n

And not at all related, I’ve always been impressed with Truthmapping<\/a> which at one time I considered to be a useful tool for creating test scenarios (can’t find the link right now at xsamplex). Apparently, the only clone (which claims to be superior to Truthmapping) I’ve found is ‘DebatePoint’<\/a>, which is open-sourced<\/a>. It sort of reminds me of Halfbaked<\/a> (which makes an excellent tool for mapping out ideas).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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