Knol is already on a Roll at Squidoo

[David Petherick [Digital Biographer]]

Interestingly, the Google knol on insomnia that was used when announcing Knol In December 2007 also appears in a Squidoo Lens by Seth Godin, and coming across this just while writing this article, when I searched (through google) for Insomnia Knol, I saw that Squidoo has unveiled a SquidKnol Project which is a template for data to be entered.

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Citation From the Squidoo lens: Squidnol Info - http://www.squidoo.com/squidknol-info

Questions asked of the SquidKnol Lensmaster

Creating your own Squidknol page isn't difficult. You just need to fill in the following information to get started.

• Your area of expertise:
• Your name:
• Your credentials:
• What's the single most important thing someone should know about your topic?
• Abstract of what you want to describe:
• The best topic for your page:

Whether Squidknol has long term traction or not, this is a smart marketing move by Squidoo!

Do take a look at the SquidKnol project, and share your thoughts here.

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

OK Squidoo are able to prepare a web page on Google's model. Google's is more reader friendly in terms of typing, with better use of bold, etc. but I am sure Squidoo are able to fill this gap.
The major problem is elsewhere, at the bottom of Squidoo page : a network editor may be willing to add stupid content of his own to author's page (such as network editor's opinion, additional votings, unwanted links, photos, videos, jokes, puns, ...)
The opinion I expressed some hours ago on your page here, David, favouring editing guidelines was much too soft. I fact we need much more : a sort of contract between network editor and author defining clearly what is authorized to both parties for building the web page.
Google clearly limited their fantasy in addition to Rachel Manber's text. Squidoo are so stupid to show us that there is an actual menace here.
For an author the selection of the right network is very important. Squidoo are possibly not the best candidate.

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

I wrote the above reply one week ago. Now I feel more familiar with networks. My last line above was a nonsense.
"For an author the selection of the right network is very important". No !!!!
FOR AN AUTHOR IT IS IMPORTANT TO POST TEXTS IN ALL MAJOR NETWORKS AND TO LINK THEM TOGETHER
So they can in the future cumulate the benefits of :
- the best structured platform (Wikipedia) if they get links to their pages elsewhere ;
- the platform most visited by Search Engines (Google) ;
- the platform where content is easiest to control (Ning) ;
- the platform that is the most friendly to all sorts of ads (Squidoo).
Belonging to other platforms (MySpace, Facebook, Orkut, etc) may be an opportunity to add other links.

However the internaut shall have more and more difficulty to find reliable information on a dedicated research within billion of pages, many of them being mostly oriented to provide money to the page owner.

Robots cannot manage the reliability of knowledge. Helpers will be needed. They have to provide portals, taking as an example the very good introduction lines we find in all major sections of Wikipedia but also, in addition, acknowledging authors.