KnowledgeOman.com's Behind The Scenes

"KnowledgeOman.com's behind the scenes" is a weekly series that will be published every Saturday on this Blog.
Since I am an active member of the KnowledgeOman.com (KO) executive team and a contributor of KO's Home Page Articles and since KO updates its Home Page every Saturday, I will be giving you the latest scoops on the work that goes into creating KO's content and some other related materials on this Blog every Saturday so you can look into how KO really works.


Before I start with each segment, I wanted to talk about something that a couple of people asked about last week's 'behind the scenes' series. I had people ask me whether it is a good idea or not to raise the problems that we are facing at KO. And my answer to that is, yes!
KO is a community of people from every field helping out each other and solving problems. We want our administration to be a transparent one, one that everybody could be a part in shaping and building to the better. If all our problems were internal and within our selves, nothing would ever be done differently and creatively and no real improvements will ever be made. And so, I say it again, yes! I do think it is a good idea to share some of the problem that we are facing at KO.
And for your information, the post timing problem which I talked about last week... it has been solved. Now, instead of having everyone post in one place (one forum) and having them post in a certain order to keep the Home Page articles in the order that we want, we have each person's segment posted in a different place (different forums) and the modules in the Home Page are organized according to our preference. So, we don't really have to worry about who posts first and who comes next since the modules are organized in our preferred order.
This is just an example of how problems could be mended by sharing them.

I will start from the bottom of the Home Page this week. Tomy, also known as Kubu, has published his product review a little after midnight today. After talking to him before midnight, I found out that he was still at work and that he got some information related to his review a little late in the week.
A person asked me about the discipline of people who don't deliver before deadline in the comment section last week. And like I told him, the people who work for KO are doing it out of good will and are not being payed. And besides, we only choose the best to work for our Home Page and Kubu is, without doubt, one of the best.
Him being a little off deadline doesn't really harm us much as long as he delivers soon after that, which he always does.

Next we have 'Knowledge Lebre' by Qusai, also known as Aquafox. This is his third series in the topic of 'copyleft' and in this week's series, he tackles copyleft in the video and animation industry.
I also spoke to Qusai prior to deadline and he didn't have any trouble writing the article. He was very much comfortable about getting it done and therefor, making me very comfortable.
I urge you all to go read his articles, it is very interesting. You would be surprised on the difference between copyright and copylef.

Now with 'CityTalks', the segment I am in charge in. In the beginning of the week, my article was supposed to be about Edutex which was a Higher Education related exhibition. I had it all figured out and wanted to make a huge coverage. But after I attended and saw how small it was, I was not impressed and thought it didn't deserve much attention.
Earlier last week, I also attended the first 'Show Your Potential' workshop (visit KO to learn more about it) and I took a few recordings of the people who attended.
And I also got my high school scores last week which I am sure you already know about.
So what I did in my segment is, instead of writing one full article on a certain topic, I made several mini articles of different topics and put them as one. And so, I wrote about the three things above.
I talked about the workshop and presented the audio file which didn't take much time to edit, upload and publish. I then talked about how the high school scores were released and the difference in the way it used to be released in the past. And finally, I talked about Edutex but tried not to put much emphasis in it because it wasn't worth it.

This is pretty much it for this week. It wasn't much of a hard week (comparing to others). Come back for more next Saturday and don't forget to visit knowledgeoman.com.