Re: DMOZ Isn’t Open After All
DMOZ is demonstrably evil and inherently dishonest. I have been on the Internet since 1979 and the web since it's creation. I have done sites from family.com to blackhistory.com and was VP of Online Interactive for all the Viacom properties in the 90's. Dmoz did not even exist when most of my sites went up and rarely did any of them get in. I had a site doing 49 live concerts a week for 3 years and they rejected it consistently for any music or live broadcast category. Actually they never told me they rejected it but the site never made it on the list. The only site that ever made it is the worst site I ever did - a single page that redirects to a parking page! They RECENTLY added the bugger and when I applied it was the last millennium!
The real problem for me came when I heard the reason they do not do the job, and why it takes so much time; there aren’t enough editors. I love volunteering and did so. I sent all my credentials, my own site urls and told them I would be happy to review music, movie and entertainment sites only to be told to bugger off as my background would make me too prejudiced. So much for having a great background in entertainment but more telling is their reason. Most people can only imagine you would do what they would contemplate.
So, never one to beat my head on the wall till it bleeds I created my own guide for a niche I like, online TV.
The first thing I did was spider DMOZ for listings, and found 80 percent were old and dead! It was easier to go out on my own to hand pick listings and check ones submitted by visitors.
Dmoz = Demon - At least historically speaking. No can tell what they might do in the future.
I see the future as niche. Just like anything, if you do not specialize you are like all the rest. That goes for search and guides.
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