Google’s Knol service seems to have already fallen on hard times, and is wrestling with junk content, plagiarized articles and enough negative buzz to kill any goodwill the project ever had.

Plagiarism Today was honored this morning with a mention by the Guardian for its coverage of the recent Google Knol spam controversy.

Google has introduced it’s effort to take on Wikipedia, but much of the conversation around it has been about how it will hurt webmasters and could cause chaos in the search engine results.

When it comes to matters of content theft, administrators at community sites face a very different set of challenges. Whether the site is a forum, a wiki or a collaborative blog, the content is valuable, but it is also difficult to protect.
The problem is that the community admin, the person usually in the best position [...]