From Google Knol to Annotum

Google Knol launched in 2009 as a challenge to Wikipedia, is now being discontinued and transformed into Annotum at Wordpress with the following motivation:

• Google is prioritizing our product efforts so we can make things much simpler for our users and devote more resources to high impact products.

Evidently knowledge was not viewed to be simple enough for Google users and therefore not a "high impact product".

In any case I have as suggested by Google transferred my knols to Annotum under the name The World as Computation, which thus collects my knol articles and also serves as a blog.

The transfer has not been seamless and has given me incentive to update the articles to keep them alive, a work which will take some time.

As of now I will thus run two overlapping blogs and hope readers will find both.