Remember web directories? Back in the mists of Internet time, it was clever to know that they existed and know which ones were relevant to the subjects you were interested in. That was when the web was still small enough to imagine we could catalog and curate content.
Indeed: web directories! Given the collapse of effective search through Google &co, we will have to return to those directories. Human-controlled, intelligent lists of access points to real, validated information.
@the_roamer
Been thinking about this recently, wouldn't this be a perfect fediverse-type project? Like an addon service for federated communities to post and rank links in a list and search other lists? @Julie
I'm reminded of this because I'm creating a presentation for high school teachers about teaching research skills and looking at similar presentations I made many years ago. I was pushing web directories HARD back then!
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