SciStarter.com and citizenscience.org

12.12: news.adds/democratizing science/
SciStarter.com and citizenscience.org:

Citizen Science Association and SciStarter
are about making science more accessible
and crowd-sourcing science projects.

graphics for google'knol

4.19: sci.addn/net.knol/graphic html is ok:
. does google'knol display picts from the web?
ie, can I create some html with graphics
that will work the same in a knol page
as it does from my desktop browser?
eg, will knol show links to picts
that are stored on the picasa website?
yes:
. I took an url from picasa
made an html image with adjusted size in seamonkey.composer,
and was able to paste-in that html
into knol's html mode .
(this practice image is in my knol home page)
. the tag, with a typical picasa url:
img style="width: 346px; height: 259px;" alt="dig-it!"
src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_v2G-__eT7bA/S0lMhrqQ4vI/
AAAAAAAAAk0/kSx5k7V56lk/
IMG_2425%20spear%20 beside%20me%20shows%20depth%20of%20holes.jpg"

search function for google'knol

4.27: web.addn`gear/net.knol/search:

. google custom search; is it for knol?
google'cse (custom search engine):
doshdosh.com shows how to use it on your site:

. however, if your site is on knol,
do an author-specific knol'search:
. put a link on your page entitled:
[search my knol pages]
and link it to here(example my= philip-torrance's).

. this works much better than
google(site:knol.google.com/k/philip-torrance)
because that search misses some main content pages
and it links to many unrelated words
just because they are showing up in the side bar
which contains unrelated or duplicate trivia
by listing other pages by this author .

. there's an api for custom search:
[5.18: todo:
. could this be used for improving a knol search?]