> I would sometimes just type in my notes from some university classes The time is ripe for something like Knol to be re-introduced. Even before Knol, we had

> I would sometimes just type in my notes from some university classes The time is ripe for something like Knol to be re-introduced. Even before Knol, we had something like this, and they were called personal websites. People would use them to document their passions (or anything, really) and you could find them on Google. People are probably so addicted to centralization and services, though, and Google's approach to ranking so overwhelmingly works against that style now, that it's probably unworkable to argue for relying on that again.