{"id":3628,"date":"2008-03-08T11:45:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T10:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newth.net\/eirik\/2008\/03\/08\/wishful-tinking-30\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T10:45:21","slug":"wishful-tinking-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2008\/03\/08\/wishful-tinking-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishful Thinking 3.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/119091\/page\/1\">Newsweek<\/a>, &#8220;the expert is back&#8221;. People now crave reliable information, preferably created by paid professionals. What&#8217;s more, expert-created content is Web 3.0. And exhibit no. 1 is * drumrolls * Google Knol. You know, the Wikipedia-killer that was launched last December amid great fanfare, and which still has only one (1) article\/knol on offer. If you want to read up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/knol_screenshot.html\">insomnia<\/a>, Google Knol is definitely the place to be. For the rest of human knowledge, Wikipedia still rules.<br \/>\nIf Knol doesn&#8217;t satisfy you, you could always enter a search term in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mahalo.com\/\">Mahalo<\/a>, a brand new &#8220;people-powered search engine&#8221; that is &#8220;based on quality and vetted by real people&#8221; (how this model differs from your run-of-the-mill user generated content eludes me). When I search for my surname, Newt Gingrich is the top hit. Do the same in Google, and the Newth family website gets highest ranking. So much for real people, apparently&#8230;<br \/>\nBut seriously: it&#8217;s really too bad that this is such an amateurishly researched hack piece. As a professional writer and blogger, I am occasionally paid for writing stuff that ends up on the web, and of course I hope that this will evolve into new business models. I just don&#8217;t trust former AOL executives or Andrew Keen to tell me how it will be accomplished. Keen&#8217;s statement really is a gem, even for him: &#8220;Nobody wants to advertise next to crap.&#8221; Right. Which is why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AdSense\">Adsense<\/a> is such a failure. \ud83d\ude09 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Newsweek, &#8220;the expert is back&#8221;. People now crave reliable information, preferably created by paid professionals. What&#8217;s more, expert-created content is Web 3.0. And exhibit no. 1 is * drumrolls * Google Knol. You know, the Wikipedia-killer that was&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2008\/03\/08\/wishful-tinking-30\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}