My Google Knol Club

Mahalo VLOGIdol is a competition to find the new host for Mahalo Daily, an incredible show hosted by Veronica Belmont who moving to Revision3 as the new co-host of Tekzilla with Patrick Norton. Mahalo is busy finding the next Daily Mahalo hostess and the finalists for the Mahalo VLOGIdol are out. The search for a smart, fun, young, charismatic, female host for Mahalo Daily has to led to 12 Finalists who will fight out to become the famous Mahalo Daily host. Here are the Mahalo VLOGIdol Finalis

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This is one of those awesome videos that really makes the internet amazing. Clay Shirky, author of ‘Here Comes Everybody’, talks at the Web 2.0 Conference earlier this month in the video above. You can also read a text version on his website. It’s been going around most of the blogs for good reason - it’s a brilliant analysis of how until recently we’ve been denying the free time modern life gives us with television and how the internet is beginning to use that untapped free time and mental c

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10 Essential Legal Points for Bloggers By Daniel Scocco Every day, millions of bloggers post content online. Millions more people read and comment on blogs. With all that communication, some interesting legal issues are bound to arise. This article looks at 10 major legal points that bloggers must know and offers some suggestions about how to work with them. 1. Develop a “legal consciousness” about blogging. Like any publications, blogs frequently create legal questions. However, there i

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What ever happened to Google Knowls? It was announced on December 13th last year with much discussion here on DLTJ and elsewhere on the blogosphere. It would seem uncharacteristic of Google to announce something like that and keep the world waiting for months to see at least a beta of the concept. Is there some sort of technical problem with the concept? Legal or business model problem? Or was it just a trial balloon for a service yet to be developed and Google wanted some free market resear

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Ooh, this combines two of my favorite things: languages and the future. John Scalzi’s grammar bitch of the day (granted, that day was a while ago) touches on one of those small spelling differences, specifically ‘alright’ vs ‘all right’. While I disagree with Mr. Scalzi on this point (’alright’ is usable as that Lichtenstein art he has up, though I’d ask somebody “Are you all right?”), it’s something to think about when discussing the differences between English spellings. I’ve spent all

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Google has recently announced a new service they intend to offer to the online masses. It is called Google Knol (a “Knol” is their word for a “unit of knowledge”) and it is being seen and described as a direct competitor to the widely used and highly ranked Wikipedia. In recent years Wikipedia entries for any number of topics can be found in the top or Google’s search engine results, which naturally leads to huge amounts of traffic. Traffic that goes to pages that very conspicuously do not

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It was announced on December 13th last year with much discussion here on DLTJ and elsewhere on the blogosphere. It would seem uncharacteristic of Google to announce something like that and keep the world waiting for months to see at least a beta of the concept. Is there some sort of technical problem with the concept? Legal or business model problem? Or was it just a trial balloon for a service yet to be developed and Google wanted some free market research from the community? Anybody know?

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Google what ? Google Knol When I found out about Google’s latest project I was pretty kind of excited. I always want to deliver this type of intuitive project. The more I learnt about this information science industry, the more I love this job. This is more I am trying to understand the nuts and bolts of knowledge […]

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Nursing home patients who take antipsychotic drugs are 60 percent more likely to develop pneumonia in the short term than those who don’t take the drugs, a new study shows. The risk is greatest during the first week after patients start taking the medications and gradually decreases, say Dutch researchers. “The risk of developing pneumonia is not associated with long-term use, but is the highest shortly after starting the drug,” said study authors Dr. Rob van Marum and Dr. Wilma Knol. They warne

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Nursing home patients who take antipsychotic drugs are 60 percent more likely to develop pneumonia in the short term than those who don’t take the drugs, according to a study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The risk is greatest during the first week after patients start taking the meds, but gradually decreases, HealthDay News reports. “The risk of developing pneumonia is not associated with long-term use, but is the highest shortly after starting the drug,” according to the

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