Michael McNally

I came to know yesterday, that a patent was filed in your name and William Strathearn on some issues of collaborative writing.

Even though the patent might have been filed long back, I came to know only today and congratulate you and Mr. Strathearn on this achievement.

I do not know whether the feature was already installed on knol or some more improvement to knol will happen at a later stage due to your patented process. But it is a good news for all of us associated with google knol.

I feel advertorials can be a good business opportunity for knol.

I collected and posted my thoughts on this issue in a knol.
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/advertorials-business-and-communication/2utb2lsm2k7a/1354#

Knol Author Recruitment - Double the Number of Knol Authors
http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/knol-author-recruitment-double-the/2utb2lsm2k7a/1170#

http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao-kvss/california-state-usa-knol-authors-knols/2utb2lsm2k7a/1016#

MM,
Maybe you can help us with this or point us in the right direction.
MaiSao Trans became director of the Vietnamese Chapter of the Knol Author foundation. He has this question-

Hi, i am running into this difficulty if you could please help. I need the cite to be users friendly with Vni- fonts so I can update the Vietnamese Knol cite. This font is a user friendly and official used in Vietnam and internationally.

Thanks,

Mai Sao

Thank you for your time

I was thinking of changing my name from "the judge" to my real name. Will my links still be valid? Will that affect my search engine performance or page rank?

I tried to remove common stuff from my Market research knols yesterday, added different words and style in these knols, the way I had started originally. I had revised and improved my knols with only the original stuff with links to other knols in the series.

Today, I was surprised to see several of my knols now have 4* ratings after revisions in place of 5*?

Global Pharmaceutical Market Review & World Top Ten/Twenty Drugs 2008

My best knol had 8X 5* ratings before revisions and now has 9X4* ratings today? Earlier changes resulted in loss of quality badge. Do I revert to the old system with common and uniform sections?

I suggest that you create a new knol to better explain the Quality badge and star system changes picked up by your current algorithms?

Other knols to suffer downgrades are

Global Diabetes Market Review 2008 & World Top Ten Diabetes drugs
Global Respiratory Market Review & World Top Ten Respiratory Drugs 2008
Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Diagnostic, Medical Device Industry
Market Research Reports Review (Data Discrepancies)

For the last knol listed, downgrading most difficult to understand as it points out the shortcomings of the $7 billion commercial market research industry. Anyone from that industry can give it a 1* rating to score competitive advantage? I can live with this and have no problems.

These knols are important for me and I get several positive emails from readers. Solicitation for articles from editors of journals has gone up once again both in numbers and frequency

Concerned if my own changes triggered the downgrades?

A random check of your 9000 quality knols shows that about 20-25% of selected knols dealing with health care were suspect and did not deserve the Q badge. These included some very dangerous health fraud knols which were notified to the FDA and to your team. Many other knols had contradictory statements, junk science and poor quality or outdated work.

Thus your algorithm is no better than visual measurements with an error of 20%

I read in one of Peter Baskerville knol, that your algorithm qualifies knols as spam or low quality if there are frequent changes/edits in knols and similar content in knols?

By the very nature of methodology used, there is similar content on most of my Global Market Research knols. On top these knols require frequent updating due to constant stream of upcoming data. I hope that your algorithm does not attribute low quality ratings to my knols due to regular input and similar content?

I understand that as Tech lead you are far more focused on the technical rather than the strategic aspects of the Knol Platform, but I think that the Knol community need some direction on the strategic plans for the KnolBook/Collections.

As you are aware, the open collaboration forum attracted much interest in the concept which has since moved on to collaborative groups being formed in the community to exploit what appears to many to be a by-chance phenomenon.

The Knols Project's current stated position is to simply canvas ideas but the wider community, both internal & external, are moving quickly to action. The smart contributors to the Knol Project know that any opportunities here are best exploited in conjunction with the Knol Team rather than independent of it.

Before things move ahead too far, it would be good to get some feedback or clarity on the ideas canvased in the open collaboration forum. I understand that company policy usually restricts the announcement of future plans, but in the collaborative partnership that is the Knol Project some standards may need to be adapted because I believe that the future of the Knol Project is as much about the community as it is about the engineering and the content.

I have launched the first knol journal but for unknown reasons, several pages of text from Word are not saved. I need your help?

Do we need a web site at google for the journal and how can we get 5-15 gmail accounts for the journal?

I can announce it to the knol community only after posting the full text?

Fixed it by importing text from Word into gmail and then copy/paste but wasted lot of time?


Need your help, comments and suggestions for starting the first knol journal?

Journal of Therapeutic Biotechnology knol (JTBK)

The first knol journal has been initiated with a call for editors, authors, sponsors and help?

I have created a new knol as a resource for the collaborative medical book project

Medical knol collection

Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Diagnostic, Medical Device Industry

Michael,

I did a random check of your currently selected 9000 knols. From A and C, I found at least 10 knols which contained health fraud, junk science or misleading statements which were flagged to the team.
It means that the criteria and specifications for your algorithm quality selection require improvements and I am sure your team can fix the problem.

Michael,

Yesterday I had the bad experience of watching some of my latest update and saved data removed?
I had posted the sales update of my Cancer Knol and when reopened last night, the two Tables were missing as if someone had removed the latest results which command a premium market price? I write to you to find out? I do not see those 2 Tables in versions 30 and 31. I had saved the changes. I have now reverted back to an earlier version 29.