Knol is "me too" in the same way Wikipedia is "me too" for Encyclopedia Britannica: it is based on a very different production process. I don't know if the comp

Knol is "me too" in the same way Wikipedia is "me too" for Encyclopedia Britannica: it is based on a very different production process. I don't know if the competition model will eventually work for them (it does work for Youtube or the Web as a whole, for example), but there is nothing inherently wrong with it from my limited perspective. Everyone can write knols, it is up to authors to establish reputation or transfer it from the real world.