More on ODP
Jack Krupansky makes the following interesting comment regarding my post about the ODP's troubles:
I read your post on the Open Directory Project and agree with your assessment. I have four legitimate web sites and five blogs, but you won't find any of them in the directory, despite my best efforts. You'll only find one of them in Yahoo's directory since I simply don't have the budget to pay for "express" service.
Maybe part of the problem is that the original interest in taxonomy has been diffused as a result of the general success of Google and its anti-taxonomy textmining philosophy, and the interest in manual tagging, folksonomies, etc. Face it, it's easy to place Technorati tags in blog posts that link to web pages, so why beat your head against the ODP "wall".
The real problem: ODP needs leadership, but it's run by a dispersed mob. Communities are great, when they work, but when they're dysfunctional, they really, really suck.
Posted by Harold Davis at May 31, 2005 04:42 PM
