Wow, I just worked on a blog sophistication analyzer. I wonder what could be learned by comparing all blogs here together: https://github.com/juleshenry/-shtetltleths-
Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
And then what? You're looking at a list of hundreds of submissions and why they have been added or not added, which completely defeats the purpose of that website. I don't get the point of these sites, because it I want a curated list, I visit the front page of hackernews or reddit -- and trust the system. Ohh.directory I'd the same thing, except for a different selection process. You either trust it or you don't.
> You either trust it or you don't. don't see why it has to be this way. It doesn't take much to tell us what the review process is like and what gets added and what does not. If I know in advance that the blogs I submit are outside their scope, then I won't waste time submitting them. I also don't see why there can't be an open directory of websites where the community makes decisions about what to add instead of le…
>> "I also don't see why there can't be an open directory of websites where the community makes decisions about what to add instead of leaving it to a single individual."
Because no one who wants one has made it. Why not be the change if it's something you want?
If your response is anything other than enthusiasm to get started, you understand why it hasn't happened.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, I appreciate the technical effort it takes to build and maintain a directory like this. It isn't lost on me that many people like it. Kudos to the author for creating this. I absolutely don't mean to be negative about it. But that shouldn't stop me from sharing my experience as a user. That it feels frustrating when I spend time making a bunch of submissions and I never hear anything back. But yeah, it's…
Have you looked at MetaFilter? I've been a lurker there for years, but have never contributed so I don't know what that process looks like. But their tagline is "Community Weblog". It might be worth checking out.
I've only submitted a few things, but never seemed to face a selection process. I think the low paywall is the only barrier.
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#74Just worked on adding categories to Kagi Small Web (inspired in part by OOH) last night. https://kagi.com/smallweb This did give it a new dimension. Each has its own RSS feed too as well.
That's great, will you also add the category field to the text file in the repo? These projects are often heavy on tech blogs and I'd like to filter those out.
Re: Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
And then what? You're looking at a list of hundreds of submissions and why they have been added or not added, which completely defeats the purpose of that website. I don't get the point of these sites, because it I want a curated list, I visit the front page of hackernews or reddit -- and trust the system. Ohh.directory I'd the same thing, except for a different selection process. You either trust it or you don't.
> You either trust it or you don't. don't see why it has to be this way. It doesn't take much to tell us what the review process is like and what gets added and what does not. If I know in advance that the blogs I submit are outside their scope, then I won't waste time submitting them. I also don't see why there can't be an open directory of websites where the community makes decisions about what to add instead of le…
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#76Given how worried everyone is about the AI slopocalypse where the internet is drowned in LLM-generated junk content maybe it's time for a resurgence of human curated directories like this one.
Yup. Search engines will basically be dead. Anything you’d type into a search engine you will probably prompt from an LLM instead.
But hand curated human directories should in theory have a very high signal to noise ratio. Every link should take you to a quality site.
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#77I'm not sure about the orange on dark green colour scheme, but I like that the site is responsive and light-weight, and manages to show a bunch of fancy effects in pure CSS.
I was surprised that Simon Willison's blog is listed in Python and Web Development categories, but not AI.
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#78Please considered sorting websites by last updated date by default, instead of alphabetical which is a pretty useless method of presentation. It works better for books and static pages, not dynamic internet content.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dmoz was trying to replicate the Yahoo! style of directory, which requires being comprehensive. Today we don't need comprehensive, we need maximum signal and minimum noise.
I'd like to argue that Wikipedia also tries to be comprehensive within the limits of relevant topics. And overall, Wikipedia still seems to be going strong.
I'd argue that Wikipedia and its 'sister' projects have accidentally cannibalized a sizeable fraction of the former 'non-commercial, non-business focused' Internet of the 1990s and early 2000s. If you're providing information in a way that's not intended to further some sort of profit motive, it makes sense to work within that large established project because that maximizes the resulting exposure. The rise of LLMs only makes this starker, every LLM is trained from Wikipedia.