The bane of knowledge management is really any "agenda" that someone who is in possession of knowledge might have that could either inhibit OR distort knowledge-sharing. "Hoarding" to in order to maintain or enhance personal value is only one such agenda. What is worse is that sometimes those who have an agenda are themselves unaware of it.
I know of no reliable antidote for agendas other than peer review and any KM platform that encourages peer review will always beat one that merely permits add-on knowledge.
Anyone who has observed the swift fate of patently false, slanted or even merely inadequate Wikipedia entries will realize instantly that Knol is no Wikipedia killer. What's more, one wonders why we even think in terms of one knowledge source "killing off" another. Is that what we mean by knowledge management? Astonishing!
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