Trinidad and Tobago students can now access material from a rival to Wwikipedia; not that you were supposed to use Wikipedia anyway.
Well yesterday Google launched 'knol'.
Knols are articles on specific topics written by qualified academics with proven expertise on that subject.
Google has also partnered with the now controversial New Yorker magazine to allow any author to add a cartoon from the magazine to their knol.
What is in it for the authors/academics?
Well money of course.
The Knol authors can run ads with their articles and receive a cut of the revenue from Google.