RE: UKNM: small businesses marketing on the internet

[Stewart Dean]

As an open directory editor I agree it needs more control. The quality of

the sections ranges from great to useless. As with many open source projects

there is a need for what could be described as a benevolent dictator to

drive things on and shape things. I've also had people reorganise my section

just to make their site a cool site. 


I personally don't like the fact the open directory is known as DMOZ

(Directory-Mozilla) and the official url is DMOZ.org.


None the less the open directory has spread like wild fire and I urge those

of you out there who have a field of specialism to join as a dmoz editor -

you can always use dmoz to organise any link pages you have.


My sections are...


Interactive TV

http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Television/Interactive/


Artificial Life

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Life/


And recently HCI

http://www.dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Psychology/Human_Factors_and_Erg

onomics/Human_Computer_Interaction/  (gotta move that one)


Cheers


 >

Stewart Dean - SDeanscient [dot] com

 > Scient*: The eBusiness Systems Innovator*

 > http://www.scient.com/london/



 > -----Original Message-----

 >

From: Ian Fenn [ianchopstix [dot] co [dot] uk (mailto:ianchopstix [dot] co [dot] uk)]

 > Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 7:59 PM

 >

To: uk-netmarketingchinwag [dot] com

 > Subject: RE: UKNM: small businesses marketing on the internet

 > 

 > 

 > At 09:58 24/01/00 +0000, Leslie Bunder wrote:

 >  >On a personal level, I find Open Directory an excellent 

 > resource for finding

 >  >things and use it much more than Yahoo. But there again, I 

 > use Yahoo! for

 >  >its free Web-based e-mail which is excellent.

 > 

 > It's just a shame that some of the editors of it behave 

 > irresponsibly and 

 > that there's no clear appeals procedure to cope with this. 

 > Categories are 

 > only as good as the individuals who edit them.

 > 

 > All the best,

 > 

 > --

 > Ian Fenn MA

 > Chief web architect, Chopstix Media Limited

 > http://www.chopstix.co.uk/ - Runner-up, yell uk web awards 

 > ninety nine 



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