apparently Knol’s founder was inspired to launch an ambitious encyclopedialike entity bc he felt online sources , such as Wikipedia, lacked info about —of all things — New Yorker cartoonists. then the New Yorker licensed cartoons for knol articles web.archive.org/web/20080730...
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
apparently Knol’s founder was inspired to launch an ambitious encyclopedialike entity bc he felt online sources , such as Wikipedia, lacked info about —of all things — New Yorker cartoonists. then the New Yorker licensed cartoons for knol articles web.archive.org/web/20080730...
on knol writers got paid a portion of ad revenue generated from the articles they wrote. unfortunately this incentivizes people to maximize traffic at the expense of quality hence the clickbaity spam and cursed vibes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
on knol writers got paid a portion of ad revenue generated from the articles they wrote. unfortunately this incentivizes people to maximize traffic at the expense of quality hence the clickbaity spam and cursed vibes en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knol
lol I don’t have much to say about “grokipedia” except it joins a long tradition of wikipedia derivatives that ultimately extend wikipedia's influence beyond its own site, and I did laugh at how "depths of wikipedia" is a word for word copy except that one word
October 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
lol I don’t have much to say about “grokipedia” except it joins a long tradition of wikipedia derivatives that ultimately extend wikipedia's influence beyond its own site, and I did laugh at how "depths of wikipedia" is a word for word copy except that one word
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