Webwork - 6:43 pm on Dec 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

Can a version of "Digging" be applied to the submission and approval of listings in a directory?

Does Digg work? Why or why not and how might the model apply - or not apply - to building a DMOZ style directory?

Maybe it's time for the DMOZ 'widget' or browser plugin or toolbar? Visit a website. Like it? Submit it in realtime from your browser or desktop within a few clicks?

The existing DMOZ model is valid, is likely to go on and on, and it works. So much has been said about every business that had a status quo, such as classified advertising, print journalism, music distribution, telecommunications, buying airline tickets, booking a hotel, . . .

The impossibilities of effective change, to open up and democratize or streamline a business process are often or always endless . . until some start-up proves the assumptions wrong.

[edited by: Webwork at 7:46 pm (utc) on Dec. 12, 2006]