For those of you ‘in the know’ Google Knol may not be new to you but I just came across it tonight.

Knol is “author­i­ta­tive arti­cles about spe­cific top­ics, writ­ten by peo­ple who know about those subjects.

As stated on the Google Blog:

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The key prin­ci­ple behind Knol is 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.
With Knol, we are intro­duc­ing a new method for authors to work together that we call “mod­er­ated col­lab­o­ra­tion.” With this fea­ture, any reader can make sug­gested edits to a knol which the author may then choose to accept, reject, or mod­ify before these con­tri­bu­tions become vis­i­ble to the pub­lic. This allows authors to accept sug­ges­tions from every­one in the world while remain­ing in con­trol of their con­tent. After all, their name is asso­ci­ated with it!

Knols include strong com­mu­nity tools which allow for many modes of inter­ac­tion between read­ers and authors. Peo­ple can sub­mit com­ments, rate, or write a review of a knol. At the dis­cre­tion of the author, a knol may include ads from our AdSense pro­gram. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will pro­vide the author with a rev­enue share from the pro­ceeds of those ad place­ments.
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Looks like a great place to share your knowl­edge. I’m going to check it out, want to join me?

http://knol.google.com

Jan