241544 Resource 188081 173239 21 1253757774832 1253757954839 Controlled RE: Google Sidewiki: Do [No?] Evil

@Mike - You make very good points; it's a complicated issue.

I agree, "loss of control" of a conversation is not necessarily evil.  In actuality, its a reality since nobody can really "control" a conversation as it may drift freely across the loosely coupled Web into blogs, forums, social media sites, etc. But knowledge is an asset and UGC is (one form) of captured and persisted knowledge.  By siphoning that into Google, its a case of the big (Google) getting bigger at the expense of the smaller (almost everyone else). Sidewiki is shifting the role of Goolge as content indexer to Google (not the commentors) as content owner.  That is a little troubling. 10 application/xml false Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB6.3; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 68.40.167.222 241498 false true false false true 188081 blog blogsite/FASeidl/moderated