choster - 11:37 pm on Nov 3, 2003 (gmt 0)

I think those links are the for PageRank.

? So there's no reason ever to link to another site except for the PageRank? I don't recall reading that in any Berners-Lee white paper.

They're sister projects, in that their operational and taxonomic models are based on ODP institutions and taxonomy. One of the co-founders of Gnuhoo (which eventually became ODP) was behind the creation of Chefmoz precisely because they didn't think the Open Directory model needed to be limited to websites-- anything in the world could be catalogued under those guidelines. Musicmoz and Open-Site follow in that tradition as well. This is little different from W3C or government agencies linking to allied projects.

Is that an affilaite ID I see there?

Where?

complaints about the good-ol-boy network

Again, what? An obscure geek project getting a visibility boost from a slightly less obscure geek project? Get a life, people.