Internet behemoth Google has done what it does best and repackaged yet another of someone else’s ideas as part of its evil plan for galactic domination.
This time the Don’t Do Evil (unless we can turn a buck out of it) company has Wikipedia in its corporate sights, with a grassy thing called Knol.
Knols are, apparently, “authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects”. Beg your pardon. Nothing like Wackypedia then.
Google product manager Cedric Dupont explained that the key principle behind the new repository of information was authorship. “Every knol will have an author, or group of authors, who put their name behind their content. It’s their knol, their voice, their opinion. We expect that there will be multiple knols on the same subject, and we think that is good.”
And here comes the kicker. If you like, you can have Google ads plastered all over your knol. And if anyone reads your ramblings, and responds to the adverts, you’ll get a share of the revenue.
Well that’s bound to encourage balanced and unbiased entries, isn’t it?
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As part of National ICT Careers Week, the Australian Computer Society in association with some of our Professional Partners – Hays, IBM, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, NAB and Object Consulting will host an ICT Careers Night to give students, graduates and young professionals a better understanding of the career options available in ICT.
The event is free for everyone and will be held on 31st of July (Thursday) at the Telstra Theattrete 242 Exhibition Street Melbourne, and will start at 6pm.
For more details and registrations, please visit:
http://www.acs.org.au/vic/
Note: geekgirl is an official sponsor of National ICT Week!!
Visit the National ICT website for more information & events 🙂
It’s opened Megan Jo Nairn’s fabulous Girl Germs exhibition. Megan is a talented illustrator working for ABC Kids amongst other projects, and this is Megan’s first solo exhibition. So give her all the love.
Girl Germs is a visual tantrum thrown by an angry girl with the aid of pencils, paper, texters, digital collage and cups of tea.
Also on Failed, an exhibition of failed prototypes produced by Melbourne designers. This exhibition of 3D objects is part of the Melbourne International Design Festival and presented by PROJEKTA57
FamousWhenDead Gallery, 207 Victoria Street, West Melbourne.
Opening hours Tues-Thu 11-6pm, Fri 11-7pm, Sat&Sun 10-3 pm
Website
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