Stephen's Lighthouse (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Another Gizmodo find: " In the first three months of 2009, the English-language Wikipedia suffered a net loss of more than 49,000 editors, compared to a net loss of 4,900 during the same period a year earlier." [ WSJ ] I recall when the Open Directory Project (anyone remember the ODP? Many librarians volunteered there). I recall it being part of Netscape and them AOL and then Time Warner...
DMOZ Blog (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Hey everyone, As we've highlighted in the past, directory searches can be very helpful if you're looking for a broad overview of a general topic. Have you ever thought about how you might be able to use this to learn more about current events? Editor glippitt has put together an article that highlights some of the excellent current events categories available in DMOZ. Emily - - - - - - - - - - According...
John Chow dot Com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Want to know the secrets of making money with WordPress sites, but don’t know where to begin? You could certainly ask for advice from moguls, but wouldn’t it be more interesting to enlist the services of someone with mythical powers. That isn’t quite the case with WordPress Mage, but you’ll find over the course of this [...]
The Web Authority (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
First let’s review what exactly are meta tags. Meta tags are sentences arranged in a specific format that contain information that is crucial to search engines. This information provides specific criteria that search engine use to categorize your web pages. Of all the Meta tags that can appear in the source code of a page the [...]
Fangshicun Health Care (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
The world of information is now growing so rapidly, the ease of getting information has been offered so cheaply, quickly and accurately. In the past, all the complaints about the disease that we feel or medical consultation we need require us to come to a medical clinic with a less expensive cost. In general, all [...] Related posts: Dangerous Cigarette For Life, Bad For Health
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
In Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ Solution, Eric Ward suggests that the way to reinvigorate DMOZ/ODP is to get LIS students involved with institution support coming from ALA and US library and information science schools. "Imagine if...
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
In case you were not aware, Google "reserves the right" to change the titles of your pages in search results. Google's Matt Cutts has released a video discussing why and how they go about doing this. Cutts says Google wants to show the titles that it thinks are most useful. "For example, suppose the title of your page is 'Untitled' or if there is no title. If that's the case, we try...
Internet News (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ Solution Eric Ward, Search Engine Land (Nov 3) Eric Ward speaks as a link builder with an educational past in library/information science in proposing a way to save the Open Project Directory...
JabzWeb.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Open Directory Project, or DMOZ, is a web directory of Internet resources. A web directory is a bit like a huge search library. The directory is ordered by subjects ranged in a hierarchy of broad to specific. The ODP is maintained by community editors who evaluate sites for inclusion in the directory. They are [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
How to access newsgroups when your ISP dumps Usenet Verizon recently joined the likes of Comcast and Time Warner, becoming the latest Internet service provider to stop giving its customers access to newsgroups on Usenet, a decades-old collection of thousands of message boards worldwide. In announcing its decision, Verizon mentioned a Web site that lists third-party commercial [...]
Scripting News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
So many things to say about where Twitter's lists point, the thing is, I've said them all already, many times over many years. There's a whole architecture already designed and deployed for lists and lists of lists. And they form directories that are much more open than the original Yahoo directory or DMOZ. I know everyone thinks DMOZ is the most open directory possible, but it's not. The list structure...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
So many things to say about where Twitter's lists point, the thing is, I've said them all already, many times over many years. There's a whole architecture already designed and deployed for lists and lists of lists. And they form directories that are much more open than the original Yahoo directory or DMOZ. I know everyone thinks DMOZ is the most open directory possible, but it's not. The list structure...
Internet News (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
DMOZ: A Solid Directory Or The Great Pumpkin Of Search? by Debra Mastaler, Search Engine Land (OCt 27) If becoming a Great Pumpkin means fading away after Halloween, then ODP/dMOZ is already there, in my opinion. Debra Mastlaer takes on...
Search Engine Roundtable (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Debra Mastaler wrote has an excellent interview with the man in charge at DMOZ (Open Directory Project) at Search Engine Land named DMOZ: A Solid Directory Or The Great Pumpkin Of Search? It really goes into a great number of...
BotHack (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Are you looking for free directories to submit to? There are literally thousands of web directories available today. Almost every day a new web directory is being created and it is difficult to judge the quality and relevance of these websites. But you never know which website will be ranked high by the search engines when the next round of indexing happens. Related posts: Part 10 – Getting Traffic...
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