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May 23, 2005

Learn to work smarter

Posted by Susan Esparza

Search Engine Roundtable reported this morning that the ODP announced that they would be closing the site status check part of the Resource Zone forums. As always, Danny had an excellent perspective and an even more interesting suggestion. Make the OPD a wiki.

Wikipedia, of course, is the enormously successful community authored encyclopedia project. Editors of Wikipedia serve to police the edits but anyone can contribute. Since the stated purpose of the Open Directory Project is to be "the definitive catalog of the web", wouldn't it make sense to have as many hands in the creation as possible? Promote the current editors to quality checkers instead and let anyone add a link.

Google Blogoscoped points out that both ODPedia.com and ODPedia.org are available.

It's worth a thought.

Posted at May 23, 2005 3:15 PM
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