Article in Wired.com
Udi Manber loves cartoons. Not animations, but the single-panel graphics that appear in magazines like The New Yorker. He studies the history of the field, has covered the walls of his house with framed originals, and has edited a book of cartoons about Google, where he works as the head of search engineering.
“Udi’s not just a fan, he’s a connoisseur,” says Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker.
When not thinking about cartoons, Manber spends endless time thinking about how search can be improved. One big reason many searches don’t succeed, he believes, is that despite the 20 billion or so Web pages in Google’s indexes — including the 2 million items in Wikipedia — the information simply isn’t there.
Article in Technology section of NYT
There is also an article in the NYT about Knol.
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I’d be more interested in this if it was integrated into Wikipedia.
Have a icon/banding system so that someone knows it’s written by someone whose field this is. When you are talking about a wider subject have the choice of the normal wikipedia article or the knol-styled specialists entry (which couldn’t be edited by anyone else).
If theres nothing about a cartoonist who died in 1968 then add it! Thats the whole point.
The fact that most of what we all want for simple answers is available on Wikipedia already tells you whats wrong here.